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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 16 Fr Major South Africa: President de Klerk letter to MT (removal of sanctions) ["I hope other will be prepared to follow your courageous stand"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 2 Fr Major South Africa: President FW de Klerk Address to the South African Parliament (release of Mandela & the way forward for South Africa) ["negotiation the highest priority. The aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispensation in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 2 Fr Major South Africa: President FW de Klerk message to MT (release of Mandela) ["thank you for your prompt reaction to the steps which I announced in my speech... There can surely no longer be any reasonable grounds on which South Africa should continue to be isolated by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 28 We Major South Africa: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (the release of Nelson Mandela) ["until we see evidence of... genuine negotiations and the ending of apartheid it is premature to... dismantle our economic and other pressures on the... Government"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 16 Fr Major South Africa: Prime Minister Silva letter to MT (sanctions) [constructive response on the way forward following Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 14 We Major South Africa: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Action on sanctions following recent South African government initiatives") [case for restoring British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB) funding] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 13 Tu Major South Africa: Statement by Dr Gerrit Viljoen (negotiations) [South African Minister of Constitutional Development & National Education: comments on contextual issues of sanctions; obstacles; debate & representation; political & economic idealogy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 13 Tu Major South Africa: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (South Africa) ["recent developments.. and how the Twelve might react to them"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Jan 3 We Major South Africa: UKA Cape Town despatch to Hurd ("South Africa: Annual Review: 1989") ["A year of positive change"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 3 Sa Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's Speech: reactions") ["Reforms greeted enthusiastically. Buthelezi and elements of the PAG prepared to negotiate with the SAG forthwith. UDF arguing that not all conditions have yet been met"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 14 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's views") ["white domination, in whatever way it exists, must go"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("De Klerk's visit to Britain") ["anxious" to meet with MT at earliest possible date] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 13 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [Mandela press conference; P.W. Botha comments; report on violence & deaths in various parts of country; Kaunda statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 12 Mo Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [text of UK Ambassador Renwick's message to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 14 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's speech in Soweto") [apartheid; crime; education; violence; nationalisation; equality, accountable leadership & peaceful protest] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 10 Sa Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [de Klerk annoucement that Mandela about to be released] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 21 We Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [record of conversation with Walter Sisulu: sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 12 Mo Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [report of Mandela press conference] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 15 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation with PW Botha: "in an agitated state... based on an inteview Mandela had given... [about potential] guerrilla attacks"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Feb 2 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela: message from the Prime Minister and Chancellor Kohl") [congratulations on his imminent release; note of caution sounded regarding possibility that invitations to visit UK & Germany might be declined] [declassified Jul 2017]