Peter Gerald Hain

Britain's decision is a victory for the seven-month campaign by British Labour peer Lord Peter Hain who first wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 4 January requesting a freeze on state contracts with Bain following evidence of the consultant's role in the undermining of the South African Revenue Service (SARS)...

Lord Peter Hain the South African-born former anti-apartheid activist and British government minister who lectures at several South African universities said investors abroad were 'bewildered' by the attacks on Ramaphosa and Pravin Gordhan the Public Enterprises Minister who is the target of almost daily onslaughts by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema...

In 2000 Africa Confidential invited him to speak at its 40th anniversary conference alongside Britain's then Africa Minister Peter Hain and the United States' then Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Susan Rice...

In January 2001 Teixeira was accused by Peter Hain Britain's then Africa minister speaking under parliamentary privilege of sanctions-busting in Angola ­ at the same time as Teixeira was completing his take-over of DiamondWorks through the reverse listing of shares in his family's Guernsey-based trust Lyndhurst Limited...

In January 2000 Teixeira denied accusations by Peter Hain then a junior minister in Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office of sanctions-breaking by flying diesel to Angola's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels...

UK trade figures now include rough-diamond imports by country of origin instead of a global figure after an initiative last year by Peter Hain the junior Foreign and Commonwealth minister then dealing with Africa (now Europe)...

The FCO's new Minister of State for Africa and the Commonwealth Scottish party stalwart Brian Wilson must catch up fast after taking over from the media-friendly Peter Hain only at the end of last month...

Everything looked rosy in July when Britain's Minister of State Peter Hain in Angola signed a memorandum on air services with Transportation Minister Luis Brando...

Now Britain's Minister of State for Africa and the Commonwealth Peter Hain wants an embargo on diamond exports from Congo-K to stop both the fuelling of its own war and the conduit of smuggled gems from Angola...

Luanda needs to show that its own stones are clean; Britain's Minister for Africa Peter Hain has emphasised that he does not advocate buying Angolan diamonds until it can be proved that corruption is not allowing UNITA diamonds to leak into official channels...