Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

ernbarga must not be revealed to the outside world. Therefore,
it has p d numerous laws which make it illegal for anyone in
South Africa to Mose any information on oil-dated matters.
People bfrhgi"g these laws face heavy fines and passible jail
terms. On the other hand, the oil companies, oil badas,
shipping companies, and other suppliers involved are anxious
not to lose their hidden identities because they fear expasure as
viobtocs of the oil embargo.
Changing market conditions in the international oil and
shipping trades, an oil glut, and the overcapacity of tanht=s have
not altered the rule of wmq. This was exp- by the South
Affimn h&nister of Mineral and Energy Affairs, Danie Steyn:
We are receiving more offers because the oil is running
out of the suppliers' gars, and they do not knaw. what
to do with it. However, every offer contains the claw
We will give you oil but nobody must how about ip
In South Africa, 02 mmpanies are regulated from top to
bottom. Longstanding laws direct the manner in which oiJ
companies produce, transport, djsbihute, and price their
products. Regdations govm ev-g from the number of
service statians a company may opm to whether a firm must
maintain its own security forcw to protect it horn possible
sabotage Companies face heavy penalties if they reveal whether
the South African government has compeUd them to sell their
products to controversial buyers such as the police and the army.
The goveri-ment also requires companies to participate in its
program to build up a strategic stockpile of oiL
The main laws regulating South Africa's oil procurement
apparatus, the strategic stockpile of oil s ky, S-, and ib
system of finandng gude d purchases are briefly discussed
below.
The N a W Supplies Pmcurm f Act was passed soon after
November 1977, when the United Nations decked an a m
embargo against South Africa. The government can use m@a-
tions of this law to force foreign-ownd companies t~ produce
strategic oil products for South Africa Oil cornpanis are
requid to set aside a cabin portion of theh refined oil for
governnmt purchase. In compliance with the South African