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Business as Usual - Transactions Violating Rhodesian Sanctions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

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Travel to many parts of Africa is a complicated undertaking — visas and shots, tickets … delays. A trip to Southern Rhodesia, however, is a breeze. No visa is required, just one or two innoculations, a passport and a confirmed onward reservation. Air travel reservations? Drop by a Pan American ticket counter anywhere in the United States and in seconds the computer will confirm space for you on an Air Rhodesia flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to the Rhodesian capital of Salisbury. It is all very convenient. The trouble is that when Pan Am, TWA, and perhaps other American carriers help make the going great, they apparently do it illegally.

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Copyright © African Studies Association 1973 

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This article is taken from an interim report issued by the Special Rhodesia Project of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It draws on confidential interviews with officials of the government and American companies as well as other informed sources. A full report on the U.S. approach to the Rhodesia problem should be completed by the end of the year.

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1 Air Rhodesia is, in fact an airline company “registered in Southern Rhodesia” The World Aviation Directory lists the airline under the heading: “Rhodesia” on page 1139, and lists as its only address P. O. Box AP. 1, Salisbury Airport, Rhodesia. In addition, Air Rhodesia's 1972 Annual Report includes a financial statement that was prepared by Derry, Ellman-Brown and Fraser, chartered accountants in Rhodesia It was prepared September 18, 1972 in Salisbury. The report was filed in accordance with Section 42 of the Audit and Exchequer Act of 1967 with the Minister of Transport and Power in Salisbury.