| Description | Contains papers regarding contingency planning for exchange controls against South Africa. Includes papers regarding UK banking sector exposure to possible events in South Africa; bank lending to South Africa; the Official Group on Policy towards Selected Non-Community Countries; the South African Reserve Bank; the possible re-imposition of exchange control in the event of the prohibition of new investment in South Africa; MISC 118 (the official group on South Africa); economic sanctions and the London gold market; postponement of foreign exchange dealings, the South African debt moratorium of September 1985; strategic minerals; prohibition of imports of krugerrands; and risk of default. Also includes minutes of meetings of South African Working Party, the Sovereign Risk Committee, 2nd September 1985, and of a meeting with Citicorp, 27th September 1985; weekly reports of events in South Africa; and press cuttings. |