Oiling the Wheels of Apartheid : Exposing South Africa's Secret Oil Trade

Addresses the use of the oil embargo against South Africa and shows that those ostensibly applying sanctions - governments, oil companies, and shipping lines - despite their condemnations of apartheid and official endorsements of the embargo, are in fact permitting oil to be clandestinely delivered. CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 High Combustion: Oil and the Antiapartheid Strategy 2 Applying Pressure: Implementing Oil Sanctions 3 The Roots of Vulnerability: South Africa's Energy Sector 4 Countering the Challenge: Coping with the Oil Embargo 5 Striking Back: Targeting Black Neighbors 6 The Leaky Sieve: Circumventing Oil Sanctions 7 Maintaining the Flow: Securing Oil Supplies 8 Looking Westward: Shippers and Middlemen Assisting South Africa 9 Chicanery on the High Seas: Techniques of Evasion 10 Thein Case of the Supertanker Salem: The Greatest Fraud in Maritime History 11 The Rhodesian Parallel: Comparisons with the South African Situation 12 Sanctions in the Balance Notes A Bibliographic Note Index