| Title |
Visit to Southern Africa |
| Reference |
KNNK 19/4 |
| Covering Dates |
1988 |
| Extent and Medium |
7.5 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Briefings and arrangements for NK's tour of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique on 8-18 July, with press cuttings, some correspondence and speech notes. |
| Index Terms |
| Botswana |
| Mozambique |
| South Africa |
| Zambia |
| Zimbabwe |
| Churchill/KNNK 19/4 contains: |
|
1
|
Correspondence. Preliminary proposals and arrangements for NK's visit to Africa, including a report of a Labour Party visit to South Africa in 1986, by Denis Healey, chief foreign affairs spokesman, Donald Anderson, foreign affairs spokesman and Julian Eccles, Policy Directorate. Correspondents include: Glenys Kinnock; W J Phiri, Zambian High Commissioner to Britain (2); Donald Anderson, on the views of Margaret Thatcher [Prime Minister] on South Africa; Herbert Murerwa, Zimbabwean High Commissioner to Britain; Margaret Thatcher on possible visits to Britain by Afonso Dhlakama, of the MNR [Mozambique National Resistance] and Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola].
1 file. |
Jan 1988-Jun 1988 |
|
2
|
Notes and correspondence. Includes: correspondence on arrangements for the visit; drafts of parliamentary questions on sanctions against South Africa; rough notes on NK's itinerary and ideas for the visit and NK's speeches; travel arrangements. Correspondents include [?] Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri, Botswanan High Commissioner to Britain.
1 file. |
Feb 1988-May 1988 |
|
3
|
Draft programmes for visit. Also includes itineraries, general travel information on climate, clothing etc.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
4
|
Background briefings. Briefings on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Southern Africa in general.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
5
|
Zambia: background briefings. Includes: notes on South Africa's aims in the local area; rough speech notes for Zambia; briefings for NK's meetings with SWAPO [South West Africa People's Organization] and the ANC [African National Congress]; note of NK's meeting with Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia.
1 file. |
Jul 1985-Jul 1988 |
|
6
|
Zambia: background briefing. Includes an account of a speech given by NK in Zambia and transcript of a press conference given by Kenneth Kaunda as Chairman of the Commonwealth Summit, Oct 1987.
1 file. |
Oct 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
7
|
Zambia: background briefing.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
8
|
Zambia: background briefing.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
9
|
Zambia: briefings for meetings and visits.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
10
|
Zambia and Mozambique: background briefings. Includes: programmes; annotated notes for NK's speech on leaving Zambia; notes of contacts with SWAPO [South West Africa People's Organization], the ANC [African National Congress] and the Front Line States; photographs of a ? refugee camp at Inhaminga and of a crèche outside Maputo.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
11
|
Botswana: background briefing.
1 file. |
Apr 1988-Jul 1988 |
|
12
|
Botswana: background briefing. Includes texts of speeches by NK.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
13
|
Botswana: notes, cuttings and correspondence. Includes correspondence on an attack by South Africa on Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana, with correspondents including Quett Masire, President of Botswana, and notes on the mining industry.
1 file. |
Jun 1985-Oct 1987 |
|
14
|
Zimbabwe: background briefing. Includes letters of understanding between the Labour Party and the African National Union (Zanu PF).
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
15
|
Zimbabwe: detailed programme. Includes rough speech notes.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
16
|
Mozambique: background briefing. Also includes timetables for whole visit (annotated).
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
17
|
Mozambique: background briefing. Includes notes, cuttings and provisional programme.
1 file. |
Sep 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
18
|
Mozambique: programmes and arrangements for visit. Includes briefings for meetings with President Joaquim Chissano and other ministers and a summary of refugee accounts of conflict-related experience in Mozambique.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
19
|
Press cuttings on Southern Africa.
1 file. |
Jan 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
20
|
Press cuttings: general briefing. Cuttings, mainly on Southern Africa.
1 file. |
Jan 1987-Jun 1988 |
|
21
|
Press cuttings: Zimbabwe briefing.
1 file. |
Jan 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
22
|
Press cuttings: Botswana and Zambia briefings.
1 file. |
Feb 1987-May 1988 |
|
23
|
Press cuttings: Mozambique briefing.
1 file. |
Jan 1987-Jun 1988 |
|
24
|
Press cuttings: Thatcher. Cuttings on the visit by Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to Kenya and Nigeria in January 1988.
1 file. |
Nov 1987-Jan 1988 |
|
25
|
General briefing papers. Labour Party News on Africa, prior to NK's visit; provisional itineraries (annotated); Institute for African Alternatives papers on the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Africa; Gallup Omnibus Report on Nelson Mandela; draft National Executive Committee statement and manifesto pledges on South Africa; a resolution on South Africa adopted by the Socialist International Council; briefing notes on South African incursions into Botswana.
1 file. |
1986-Jul 1988 |
|
26
|
General briefing papers. Briefing material, mainly on apartheid and sanctions against South Africa.
2 files. |
Oct 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
27
|
Zimbabwe and Mozambique: notes. Includes: notes on press coverage, particularly on NK's party being detained by soldiers at the airport in Zimbabwe; briefing for meeting with Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe and other ministers; photograph of NK's meeting with Mugabe; notes of meetings; brief on land resettlement scheme; general briefing and programmes.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
28
|
Zimbabwe: speech. Text of NK's speech to the Zimbabwe branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and members of the Zimbabwe Cabinet. Also includes text of NK's earlier speech in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 1985.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
29
|
Zimbabwe: press cuttings. Cuttings on NK's visit, particularly his party being detained by Zimbabwean soldiers at the airport.
1 file. |
Jun 1988-Jul 1988 |
|
30
|
Zimbabwe and Mozambique: correspondence. Includes briefing for a meeting with Joaquim Chissano, President of Mozambique and press statements on the Front Line States. Also includes copies of correspondence with Margaret Thatcher on possible visits to Britain by Afonso Dhlakama, of the MNR [Mozambique National Resistance] and Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] [duplicates of correspondence in 19/4/1].
1 file. |
Oct 1987-Jul 1988 |
|
31
|
Notes and press-cuttings. Includes: notes from NK's meetings in Zambia; briefings for meetings in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique; statement on co-operation between Labour and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU PF); notes on Zimbabwean land resettlement; briefing on a Commonwealth fund for Mozambique's development; press-cuttings on NK's visit.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
32
|
Press party: correspondence.
1 file. |
Jun 1988-Jul 1988 |
|
33
|
Press-cuttings on NK's visit.
1 file. |
Jul 1988 |
|
34
|
Correspondence and press statements. Letters of thanks following NK's visit, copies of Labour Party News, notes on expenses and press statements on sanctions against South Africa, Feb 1990.
1 file. |
Aug 1988-Feb 1990 |
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