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Neil Kinnock on Thatcher and sanctions (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock says Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is playing games with the international community in a bid to let South Africa off the hook (vis-a-vis apartheid and economic sanctions)...
Africa losing patience with UK over sanctions (1986)
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- Interview; News report
Junior Foreign Office minister Lynda Chalker on her discussion with Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress (ANC). She claims that economic sanctions would not end apartheid. Tambo is losing patience...
Bishop Desmond Tutu accuses Thatcher of siding with racists (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Bishop Desmond Tutu accuses UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher of siding with racists, and says she should be helping the suffering blacks. He says that sanctions are the best option. Female interviewer...
Margaret Thatcher says no to sanctions (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on pressure on Britain to impose economic sanctions against South Africa. Speaking on Channel 4 News, UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher says she is opposed to any major sanctions against South...
Black South African leader in London (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Black South African leader Allan Boesak, speaking during a visit to London, says that the meeting between Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress (ANC) and UK Foreign Office minister Lynda Chalker is a...
Margaret Thatcher on Geoffrey Howe’s visit to South Africa (1986)
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- Interview
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after the Common Market Heads of Government meeting in The Hague, where EEC leaders very reluctantly agreed with her not to impose sanctions on South Africa. She believes it...
Neil Kinnock reaction to EEC meeting in The Hague (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock reacts to the meeting in The Hague at which it was agreed not to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, and criticises Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, calling the...
Denis Healey on sanctions decision (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Denis Healey on his return from his South African fact-finding trip. He warns Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe to stay away from South Africa, following Margaret Thatcher’s...
Oliver Wright reacts to IRA extradition treaty (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
UK Ambassador to Washington, Sir Oliver Wright reacts to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s approving an amendment to the extradition treaty between the UK and the USA which will enable IRA...
South African police raid Soweto homes (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the raiding of the homes of activists in Soweto, South Africa, as a result of which activists, trade union leaders, and political leaders were imprisoned. Pir Lo(?), a police spokesman, comments on...