Originally Posted by pandaperth

In the past the way to do it was to phone the AA RTW desk and get the itinerary set up and priced in ZAR (Sth African Rand), then phone AA's GSA in South Africa (Mindpearl) and pay over the phone. BUT there have been recent reports that Mindpearl will not accept payment using non-South African credit cards - see this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...ct-anyone.html

One option is to set up a basic RTW itinerary in the online tool and ticket it. Then later pay the USD125 change fee to tweak it the way you want it. For example this itinerary does price up in the tool - JNB-SYD-ADL-SYD-SFO-MAD-DOH-JNB.