Vol 63 No 19 | 
            - AFRICA
- BRITAIN
	     Her widely reported support for sanctions against apartheid South Africa  in contrast to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's opposition to them  boosted her standing with several leaders  notably Nelson Mandela and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     His despatches in French covered the turbulent years of Margaret Thatcher's government: clashes in the inner cities  hunger strikers in Northern Ireland  and policy battles in the Labour Party...
	 
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	     He is understood to have used his connections at the highest level of Gaddafi's government to help the Bermuda-based Magna Holdings  chaired by Margaret Thatcher's senior foreign policy advisor Charles Powell  to set up investments in Libya...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 58 No 10 | 
            - AFRICA
- EUROPE
	     The UK's largest public relations firm  founded by Lord Timothy Bell  a former election advisor to the late British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher  Bell Pottinger has now cut its ties with the controversial Gupta family – which has a close business relationship with South African President Jacob Zuma and his family – after losing two major clients with ties to South Africa because of their concern about its contract with Oakbay Investments  the Guptas' holding company (AC Vol 57 No 21  Stalwarts push for Zuma's exit)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Ibrahim Babangida – seen by the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as Nigeria's most pro-Western leader – seized power in a palace coup in August 1985...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Alongside him is Bell Pottinger  the firm that helped Margaret Thatcher win three elections...
	 
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	     Then  on his return from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral  the ostensible ‘good cop’ Vice-President Scott made comments about South African President Jacob Zuma: he compared him to apartheid-era President F...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    ’ Mann’s promise to repeat in the British courts his claim that Mark Thatcher  son of former Premier Margaret Thatcher  and Lebanese businessman Ely Calil were the financial kingpins in the 2004 plot to overthrow Obiang has been welcomed in Malabo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 24 | 
            - COMMONWEALTH
	     The summits at Nassau  Vancouver and Kuala Lumpur (which pushed Margaret Thatcher on sanctions against apartheid South Africa) and the  ground-breaking Eminent Persons Group of 1986 were high points under Ramphal...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 8 | 
            - SOUTH AFRICA
	     We hear Tim Bell  a public relations advisor to British Conservative former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher  has been helpful in shaping Zuma's personal strategy...