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PDF 89 Dec 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [MT changes to draft statement for Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Dec 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [UK's plan of action for response to Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Dec 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["South Africa": UK's plan of action for response to Mandela's expected imminent release] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKA Cape Town despatch to Hurd ("South Africa: Annual Review: 1989") ["A year of positive change"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Jan 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 conversation record (“South Africa”) [MT, UK Ambassador Robin Renwick, Charles Powell - possible release of Mandela] [declassified 2014]
PDF 90 Jan 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["South Africa": how UK should react to Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [soundings recent visit: "general optimism that the old stalemates are about to be broken... the key issues are perceived to be economic. How can foreign capital be drawn in..."] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Jan 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, Dr. Denis Worrall] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [joint invitation from MT and Kohl to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [release of Mandela: proposed joint Anglo-American statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with de Klerk") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Hurd visit; de Klerk visit to UK; negotiations with political opponents; ANC violence; sanctions; use of the death penalty] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: meeting with the Finance Minister") [UK Ambassador Renwick record of conversation: Defence issues; the need for de Klerk's forthcoming speech for the Opening of Parliament to address Mandela's release and negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("South Africa") [de Klerk visit to UK; release of Mandela imminent] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: reform") [expected key points of forthcoming de Klerk speech likely to announce imminent release of Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 234 to FCO (0200Z) ("Secretary of State's meeting with Secretary Baker") [Hurd, Baker record of conversation: lifting of sanctions in response to Mandela's release; inviting Mandela to US; G7; Angola] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Mrs Chalker's meeting with President Mugabe: South Africa") [record of conversation: "discussed process of change in South Africa at some length"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT (President FW de Klerk press conference: release of Nelson Mandela) [lines to take] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President FW de Klerk (release of Nelson Mandela) ["I also very much welcome... lifting the state of emergency and the unbanning of the ANC... these are major steps forward"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: de Klerk's speech") [speech centering around release of Mandela: key points] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Written Statement on de Klerk’s speech (warmly welcomes decision to release Mandela, changes "vindicate a policy of contact rather than isolation")
PDF 90 Feb 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 286 to FCO (0030Z) ("US/South Africa: reaction to de Klerk's Speech") ["Invitation to de Klerk likely to be only gesture possible in immediate future. The Administration will pursue the question of a suspension or modification of sanctions, but results will take time"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to Ingham ("Mandela's release") [draft MT statement for press] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Pik Botha's meeting with EC ambassadors") [report outlining Botha's relayance of his government's concerns about West not following up on its pledges; discussion of key UK concerns about current situation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [series of tailored draft statements for MT to coincide with Mandela's release] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Taoiseach Haughey ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiation, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to President Mitterrand, PMs Lubbers, Cavaco Silva & Andreotti ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Prime Ministers Mulroney & Hawke ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Presidents Babangida & Kaunda ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [de Klerk annoucement that Mandela about to be released] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT message to Prime Minister Kaifu ("South Africa: release of Mandela") [endorsement of de Klerk - "has taken considerable political risks" - and call for reciprocation of his efforts through ANC suspension of violence & entry into negotiatians, and the lifting of sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: Mandela") [main points from Mandela's address to rally in Cape Town; reports of violence at the rally] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: ODA minute to No.10 (Mells Park Conference) [report on most recent meeting of ongoing secret negotiations between ANC and South African government] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela") [report of Mandela press conference] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Mandela's release") [text of UK Ambassador Renwick's message to Mandela] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Feb 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (South Africa) ["recent developments.. and how the Twelve might react to them"] [declassified Jul 2017]

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