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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3171
South Africa (Internal situation: relations with UK; release of Nelson Mandela) (Part 21)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret - Cab One
Page count: 493
Any docs withheld? 10

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90 Feb 14 We Major South Africa: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Major's views on sanctions & aid] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 8 Mo Major South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robin Renwick") [release of Mandela; political reform; possible MT visit; Namibia; Renwick to Hurd: Annual Review 1989] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 16 Fr Major South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("Action on sanctions following recent South African government initiatives") [renewal of British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB) funding for South Africa Trade Association] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 24 We Major South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [de Klerk visit to UK; release of Mandela imminent] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 22 Mo Major South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [joint invitation from MT and Kohl to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017]
89 Dec 12 Tu Major South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [MT changes to draft statement for Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 20 Tu Major South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa: EC discussion") [meeting of Foreign Ministers to discuss lifting of ban on investment] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 9 Fr Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to Ingham ("Mandela's release") [draft MT statement for press] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Cabinet: South Africa") [Hurd report on meeting of EC Foreign Ministers to discuss lifting of ban on investment] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 1 Th Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President de Klerk's speech: 2 February") [de Klerk informs UK Ambassador Renwick of meeting with Mandela on the eve of speech announcing Mandela's imminent release, and requests Renwick convey assurances that speech will announce "major steps"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 15 Mo Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") ["FCO's contingency plan... on how we should respond to Mandela's release"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 3 Sa Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") ["we need to galvanise the Foreign Office into... rolling back measures against South Africa... de Klerk... will be bitterly disappointed if we cannot... when Mandela is released... access to funds from the World Bank and the IMF... is not within our gift and the Americans will be crucial here"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 2 Fr Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT ("South Africa") [release of Mandela: advance notice of "the main contents of President de Klerk's speech and it is going to be very good"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 19 Mo Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (Nelson Mandela) [heads-up of possible phone call to discuss sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 10 Sa Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (release of Nelson Mandela) [Botha relays message that Mandela to be released the next day; MT draft press release] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (UK support for anti-apartheid groups other than ANC in South Africa) [Laurens van der Post: "many sinister strains in Mandela's speech... the alarm bells are ringing"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 12 Mo Major South Africa: Charles Powell minute to No.10 ("South Africa") [key points on: ANC/UK difference of views on armed struggle & significance of sanctions; support for de Klerk; Labour policy on sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 6 Tu Major South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Bonn ("Secretary of State's meeting with Genscher: South Africa") [Hurd, Genscher record of conversation: lifting of ban on investments; Namibian independence celebrations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Political aid") [proposed cross-party examinaton of policy options with regard to setting up of "a new organistion or foundation"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 1 Th Major South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("President de Klerk's speech: 2 February") [lines to take on the eve of speech announcing Mandela's release: "In the expectation that Mr de Klerk announces some new moves towards negotiations, but ones which are modest compared with media expectations"] [declassified Jul 2017]