US government reports on South Africa

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	US Congress / GAO / State Department
Coverage	1975-1987
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies (1979b)	US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Report on US Corporate Interests in Africa (Senator Dick Clark, 1978)	1976	Shows return on US capital in Nigeria and Libya exceeded that in South Africa in 1976.
Rodman (1995a)	U.S. Department of State Bulletin, 15 Sept 1975	1975	Documents the 1975 decision to exempt foreign subsidiaries from the Cuba embargo.
Rodman (1995a)	U.S. Department of State, Report to Congress on Industrialized Democracies' Relations with and Measures Against South Africa (12 May 1987)	1987	Used to describe the weaker European/EEC sanctions compared with the U.S. CAAA.
Rodman (1995a)	U.S. General Accounting Office, Libyan Trade Sanctions, NSIAD-87-132BR (May 1987)	1986-1987	Source for the 73.6 percent decline in affiliate trade with Libya in the first year of sanctions.
Rodman (1995a)	U.S. General Accounting Office, South Africa: Status Report on Implementation of the Comprehensive Anti-apartheid Act, NSIAD-88-44 (Oct 1987)	1987	Documents the executive branch's generous interpretation of CAAA loopholes.