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PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Restrictions on press freedom") ["We expect to be pressed to comment on the new measures and to say what we shall do to support the freedom of the press"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: implementation of Nassau Agreement") [import of Krugerrands; computer exports; oil exports; nuclear exports; arms imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa and the Commonwealth") ["I have yet to meet anyone in the Government or among ordinary South Africans who relishes the prospect of a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group... coming to South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Eminent Persons Group") [assessment of current support amongst African governments for the Commonwealth Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Krugerrands: GATT aspects: Canada") ["have not... taken legislative measures... encouraged a voluntary ban... unlikely... to alter their current stance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Dar es Salaam telegram to FCO ("Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") ["despite scepticism... that any measures short of economic sanctions are likely to influence the South African Government, we believe the Tanzanians are prepared to give it a try"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKHC Mbabane telegram to FCO ("Swaziland: South Africa and the Commonwealth") [British High Commissioner Reith, Prime Minister Bhekimpi: record of conversation] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["Were it not for you admirable efforts, I would have had no hesitation in rejecting the Nassau initiative outright"; alternative proposal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Internal situation") [report on detentions, incidents and deaths] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Adley MP) [Adley advises that "The best way... of encouraging... dialogue... would be to talk to the ANC"; MT "appalled by the recent pronouncements of Mr Tambo"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Black participation in decision-making") ["The President has invited suggestions on black participation in a restructured President's Council... few blacks seem likely to wish to participate"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["dismayed... that your Government consider that it would be impossible to co-operate... The international pressures for sanctions... will fast gather momentum again"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [Ambassador Moberly, Pik Botha: record of conversation: "no way in which the... [South African government] could agree to be lectured"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing note for MT (meeting with Enos Mabuza) [concise character sketch; FCO briefing attached] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: Eminent Persons Group (EPG)") [membership; announcement to S. African government; assessment of S. African government reaction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") ["three points which could tip the balance into South African rejection of the EPG"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to MT ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [membership; constitution; press release] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Enos Mabuza) [strategy for initiating dialogue between S. African government & black representatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Group on South Africa) [text of Statement "embodying my Government's reactions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French sanctions against South Africa") [possibility of being mooted at annual Franco-African summit and/or European Council; Franco/African trade] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("EC Code of Conduct") ["for European companies with subsidiaries in South Africa... [role] in the economic development of black South Africans... the Code has been strengthened"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to Brittan PS (Commonwealth Accord on South Africa) ["we should not get ahead of others in importing a ban on the sale of Kruggerands"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Dr. Julius Nyerere (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting/Nassau Accord; Eminent Persons Group; resignation from Presidency of Tanzania] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Visit of Lord Barber") [report on meeting with President Botha and Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: freehold rights") ["If asked about this development you may wish to comment that we welcome the intention to allow black home owners to acquire freehold rights"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Eminent Persons Group: Possibility of the Prime Minister Seeing General Obasanjo") ["keen to have a private talk with [MT]... [is] in a position to play a key role in the Group"; MT agrees] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Eminent Persons Group") [lines to take on discussion of Group's diplomatic strategy; lines to take on discussion of Nigeria with General Obasanjo] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Lesotho relations") [report on alleged ANC plans to launch armed attacks from Lesotho] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Group of Eminent Persons) ["I was very pleased... to meet the members this morning and was greatly encouraged... I have already sent a message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) [reform in S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Pretoria ("Eminent Persons Group") [report on first meeting & meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [report on her meeting with the Group; "they particularly asked me to to urge you to let them visit South Africa in January"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; reform process/dialogue; policy towards Zimbabwe over recent landmine explosions ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [Howe proposal for Lord Richardson to act as intermediary between MT & President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group: visit to South Africa) ["If not correctly... handled, this initiative could be damaging not only for South Africa but for the whole of the sub-continent"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (Zimbabwe's relations with the ANC and South Africa) [angry response to perceived MT insinuation of Zimbabwean compliance in ANC attacks and "a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Claude Hankes-Drielsma letter to MT (Dr. Fritz Leutwiler meeting with the Prime Minister) ["to convey to you his personal impressions subsequent to his meeting with President Botha and many others in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (report on South Africa) [possible military coup] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Derek Tonkin farewell letter from Pretoria) [MT "found it a very interesting and well-written account, if rather depressing in its conclusions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (South Africa) [corrects Mugabe's reading of her previous letter: "[we] accept that you do not allow or encourage ANC bases in Zimbabwe... Nor is there any question of my seeking to threaten Zimbabwe on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Nigerians insisting on meeting with Mandala as condition of joining visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Julian Amery MP (visit to South Africa) ["grateful to you for raising with the President the importance of seeing the Eminent Persons Group and the need to avoid cross-border raids"] [declassified Feb 2016]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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