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1980 Sep 9 - 1980 Oct 1
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/370
South Africa (Visit to UK by Dr Van Zyl Slabbert, leader of opposition, September 1980: call on Prime Minister)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 32
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Date Value Title
80 Sep 9 Tu Major South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Dr Van Zyl Slabbert: Leader of the Opposition in South Africa") [FCO recommends that MT not meet with Van Zyl Slabbert] [declassified 2010]
80 Sep 17 We Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Leader of South African opposition, Dr Van Zyl Slabbert) [Namibia, South Africa] [declassified 2010]
80 Sep 19 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO ("Mr Luce's Visit") [Pik Botha tells Luce that P W Botha is "very angry indeed over the call of Dr Van Zyl Slabbert on our Prime Minister"] [declassified 2010]
80 Sep 23 Tu Major South Africa: FCO to UKE Pretoria ("Visit of Dr Van Zyl Slabbert") ["You should vigorously reject any suggestion of the slightest impropriety" in MT's meeting with Van Zyl Slabbert] [declassified 2010]
80 Oct 1 We Major South Africa: UKE Pretoria to FCO ("Van Zyl Slabbert") [clear from P W Botha's comments that "the meeting [of Van Zyl Slabbert] with Mrs Thatcher still rankled"] [declassified 2010]