Abstract
This article reviews attempts by Britain and the Commonwealth to secure the release of Nelson Mandela from imprisonment in South Africa in the 1980s. It does so by drawing upon a recently published collection of documents compiled by Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as on interviews conducted recently for the London-based Commonwealth Oral History Project. Despite her staunch opposition to the further sanctions that the rest of the Commonwealth wished to impose on South Africa, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, is shown to have tried doggedly to persuade the South African Prime Minister, then President, P.W. Botha, to release Mandela unconditionally.
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