jun 1, 1989 - De Klerk visits Thatcher

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11403728/Margaret-Thatchers-secret-campaign-to-end-apartheid.html

"F W de Klerk soon emerged as the man most likely to take over and, in June 1989 – three months before he became president – de Klerk was invited to meet Thatcher at Chequers. She outlined her familiar demands and this time, the message was received. At midnight on the eve of February 2 1990, de Klerk telephoned me to say: “You can tell your prime minister that she will not be disappointed.” "

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/interview-with-fw-de-klerk-on-margaret-thatchers-legacy/

"My very first meeting with her – I was, in a sense, president elect – and I briefed her here in London in 10 Downing Street about my vision. Beforehand people said she would give me a lecture. She didn’t give me a lecture, she listened carefully and asked penetrating well-informed questions. And at the end she said ‘if you do what you’ve just told me, you will have my support’."

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/archive/margaret-thatchers-role-in-sas-transformation--fw-

I first met Margaret Thatcher in May 1989 three months after my election as leader of the National Party, and before I became President. She strongly encouraged me to press ahead with my plans for the constitutional transformation of South Africa. I was impressed by her qualities - including common sense; an aversion to political cant; enormous courage and dogged determination to proceed along the course that she had decided was right.

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