Education: South Africa

Includes notable schools (K-12 and equivalents), universities, educational resources both in the country and elsewhere.

British Council. (http://www.britcoun.org/)
Offices in Africa are in Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town (http://catholic-ct.org.za/)
Includes history, biographies, information on the departments, societies, structure, the Dominican Sisters, etc.

Catholic Internet and E-mail Directory of Southern Africa (CIDSA) (http://www.smom-za.org/cidsa/cidsa.htm)
Provides names, e-mail addresses; information on the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Dioceses and Parishes, Religious Orders and Congregations, Catholic Organisations, Catholic Schools, Catholic Health Care, Catholic Bookshops & Repositories, Catholic Publications, personal homepages and E-Mail addresses of Catholics.

Channel Online (Johannesburg) (http://www.learn.co.za/)
South African online learning site; aimed at high school students, grades 9-12. Includes access to a Avirtual laboratory@ for interactive experiments in biology, chemistry, geography, and physics; works of Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in an electronic library; other lessons in math, history, business economics, etc.

City of Cape Town (http://www.capetown.gov.za)
Official site of the new council made up of six local councils: Blaauwberg Municipality, City of Cape Town, City of Tygerberg, Helderberg Municipality, Oostenberg Municipality, South Peninsula Municipality and the Cape Metropolitan Council; includes municipal notices, press releases, online City Bulletin, current local weather, links to city police, online city services, also to each of the member councils and other government sites. Provides downloadable pdf files dealing with traffic accident reports, public transportation fares, water quality reports, household surveys, socioeconomic characteristics and profile of the metropolitan area; includes education level, and full text documents dealing with Cape Town's economy.

Civnet (New York, NY) (http://civnet.org/)
Website of Civitas International. An online resource and service for civic education practitioners (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations promoting civic education....Presents excerpts from numerous documents, articles and reports on civic education, civil society; in English and French.

Community HEART (Manchester, U.K.)(Health Education And Reconstruction Training) (http://www.community-heart.org.uk/)
Manages a book donation project for schools in South Africa, sends computers to schools, also has math, art, nutrition projects. In English and German.

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa (http://disa.nu.ac.za/)
The aim of the DISA project. is to make South African material of high socio-political interest accessible to scholars and researchers world-wide. In its first phase, over 35 South African anti-apartheid journals are being digitized; links are available to full text articles.

E-Pals (http://www.epals.com/)
Classroom Exchange K-12 ; allows user to locate schools in Africa which are interested in communicating by e-mail in English, French, Swahili, Afrikaans, and other languages.

Electronic Schoolbook - Southern Africa (http://www.school.za/tes/)
Links to numerous South African school web sites; also provides email addresses of many schools from Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and others.

Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC (http://www.hsrc.ac.za/)
Supports programs in education, human resources (health, youth, etc.), science development, social dynamics; provides such databases as South African Data Archive. A Modern Constitutions Database enables comparison and analysis of constitutions from, for example, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

INTEC College Courses (South Africa) (http://www.intec.edu.za/)
Intec College, in Cape Town, South Africa, offering Beginning and Conversational Zulu, and Intensive Xhosa as distance education courses.

Independent Development Trust (Cape Town) (http://www.idt.org.za/)
Established in 1990 by the national government, under the Ministry of Public Works, to promote economic and social development; some working papers and full text reports are available.

The Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org)
Good site for school children.

Juta & Co (http://www.juta.co.za/)
One of the largest academic publishers in South Africa, specializing in legal, medical, academic, educational publications. Linksto the Publishers Association of South Africa and to some annual book awards.

Michigan State University Academic Partnerships with South Africans For Mutual Capacity Building, October 18 - October 21, 1998 Conference (http://www.matrix.msu.edu/sacapacity/)
Includes comprehensive report from conference, audio files of full-text speeches by five keynote speakers, links to primary resources on higher education in South Africa, as well as links to the websites of over 35 universities and Atechnikons@ in South Africa, educational associations and other non-governmental organizations, online news sources, general resource sites and search engines, government sites, and tourism information resources.

Peace Corps, Kids World - South Africa (http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids/world/africa/southafrica.html)
Aimed at young, elementary school-age children; presents life of a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural village; includes country facts and map.

Project Cape Town: Education and Integration in South Africa (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/capetown/)
Multimedia teaching resource produced by University of Virginia; includes audiovisual clips.

SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions -- Africa (http://www.sibmas.org/idpac/africa/za.html)
“...lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about collections found within the institutions.”

Safundi (http://www.safundi.com/)
Online Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies.

SchoolNet South Africa (http://www.school.za)
Network's homepage providing links to other related sites, extensive resources for both teachers and students, reports from government and other SchoolNet partners, events, press releases and articles, contact information for SchoolNet staff, provincial affiliates.

Shuttleworth Foundation: Innovation in Education (http://www.tsf.org.za)
Aims to improve quality of South African education by focusing funding efforts into mathematics, science and open source projects; prefences given to Grades 4 through 9; provides information on how to apply for funding; links to events, partners, etc.

South African Democratic Teachers Union (http://www.sadtu.org.za/)
Provides information on officers of union, press releases, speeches, publications; links to other national and international education and union sites.

South African Internet Resources (http://www.anc.org.za/sanet.html)
Extensive coverage of all topics. Links to all levels of government, national, regional, international associations, societal and environmental issues, etc.

South African Politics -An online introduction (Allison Drew) (http://www-users.york.ac.uk/%7Ead15/SApolitics.htm)
Web course providing an introduction to South African politics and political history using internet-based resources; includes historical overview, reading lists, research exercises, two maps.

South African Sociological Association (http://generalupdate.rau.ac.za/sasa/)
Located at Department of Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University; includes links to newsletter, related sites.

Study South Africa: The Guide to South African Universities and Technikons (http://www.studysa.co.za/)
Directory of all universities and technikons; includes clickable maps, instructions on how to apply for a study permit.

Technikon SA (http://www.tsa.ac.za/)
Site of the largest institution for distance education in Southern Africa; majority of students are from South Africa. Links to news media and other online resources.

UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations (http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/)
On-line access, until Dec. 30, 2004, to dissertations written from US and Canadian institutions.

United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations, etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (http://www.unicef.org/)
“Works for children's rights, their survival, development and protection, guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child." Site offers reports and information about the status and living situations of children in many countries.

Welcome to Africa. No- the Index on Africa (http://afrika.no/)
Links to news, information, annotated resources on African countries. Sponsored by the Norwegian Council for Africa.

Worldwide Classroom: International Consortium of Schools (http://www.worldwide.edu)
All types of schools from elementary to university, vocational to executive are searchable by country and by types and has other helpful search services.

Yahoo! search directory. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/)
Search by name of country, then under the category of “Education--Higher Education--Colleges and Universities” to find mostly English language websites of the most important institutions of higher education located in a specific country.