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Newly released cabinet papers put paid yesterday to longstanding Tory boasts that Margret Thatcher used her controversial courting of South Africa's apartheid-era government to help win the release of Nelson Mandela.
Government minutes from 1984, published under the 30-year rule, show that Thatcher made little or no effort to secure Mandela's freedom during her first official meeting with South African prime minister PW Botha.
The documents record a summit between Thatcher and Botha, supposedly to discuss the country's policy towards its black population.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY