Society: South Africa

Includes anthropology, demography, sociology, ethnic groups, women and gender studies, diasporas.

AfricaFiles (http://www.africafiles.org/index.asp)
Network of volunteers who are “committed to Africa through its promotion of human rights, economic justice, African perspectives and alternate analyses.” Launched in early 2002.

African Christian Democratic Party (http://www.acdp.org.za/)
"We stand for: Christian Principles, Freedom of Religion, An Open Market Economy, Family Values, Community Empowerment & Human Rights in a Federal System." Political part site with links to party news, information, speeches and documents.

African National Congress (http://www.anc.org.za/)
"South Africa's National Liberation Movement." Official site includes press statements, speeches, links to South African government sites, online access to the publications, ANC Today, Umrabulo, Sephadi, and Umrabulo, current and historical ANC documents.

African National Congress: Historical Documents (http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/)
Extensive archive of online speeches, complete books, biographical summaries, photographs, and other documents by leading figures in ANC and anti-apartheid activities; also, selected speeches by prominent world leaders in support of anti-apartheid.

African Voices (http://www.isixhosa.co.za/)
Multimedia courses in Xhosa, and Zulu languages; includes cultural information and reviews from South African newspapers.

Afrikanerbond (http://www.icon.co.za/%7Eabond/)
Political party site. Presents history since 1994, constitution, speeches, press releases, meeting reports, etc. Site is in Afrikaans and English.

Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org)
“Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.” The English language homepage provides articles on human rights questions and abuses in countries around the globe.

Boer Nation Page (http://www.boer.co.za/)
"Welcome to the independent CyberVolksrepublic of the Boer Nation." Provides news sources; produces e-publications; includes directory of related organizations; in English and Afrikaans.

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 Diocese of Eshowe (http://www.smom-za.org/eshowe/eshowe.htm)
Presents history, schools, health care, etc.; also provides links to the Catholic Internet and e-mail directory of southern Africa.

Catholic Hierarchy: Country List (http://catholic-hierarchy.org/country/)
Current and historical information about the bishops and dioceses.

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.

Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za)
Includes selected full text papers and articles from its journal, Track Two, also full text of Working Papers from the Southern African Centre for Defence Information.

Centre for Policy Studies (Johannesburg) (http://www.cps.org.za)
Independent institution; includes research reports, policy briefs, dealing with such topics as foreign workers, urban decay, xenophobia.

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (http://www.csvr.org.za)
Non-governmental organization based in Johannesburg and operating since1989. Presents many full text articles on such topics as prisons, crime, rape, gangs, children, education, health, industry, etc.

Christian Network Links for Africa (http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/cecilian/777/safrica.htm)
Extensive list of sites for Southern African religious (Christian) organizations.

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.

Comedy Club (http://www.comedyclub.co.za)
Interviews with comedians, satirical articles on political, social issues in South Africa. and performance schedules.

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.

Derechos Cafe - A Human Rights Hangout (http://www.derechos.net)
Offers documents, web links arranged by region and country, news reports as well as a directory of human rights organizations.

Durban. City (http://www.durban.gov.za/)
Official website for the Durban Metro Unicity Project. Provides information on local government, tourism, local media, conference facilities, etc.

EPoliticsSA (http://www.idasa.org.za/)
Site of the independent non-profit public interest organization, Institute for Democracy in South Africa, which promotes democracy in South Africa. Includes coverage of political news and analysis, briefings, publications, links to related sites; provides a Who's Who section.

Education With Enterprise Trust (EWET) (Harrisburg, South Africa) (http://www.ewet.org.za)
Nonprofit organization assisting poor. Includes two programs: Youth Enterprise Society (YES) aimed at youth in grades 9 to 11, empowering them to create their own jobs, and Partnerships for Development Models (PDM), which fosters improved delivery of services and socioeconomic development.

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.

Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.

EnviroLink (http://www.envirolink.org/)
“The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.”

Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site by country name will yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read in it.

Human Rights Watch - South Africa (http://www.hrw.org/africa/southafrica.php)
Provides news releases, current events, information on publications; links to overviews on human rights developments from 1997 through 2001.

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.

Institute for Democracy in South Africa, IDASA (http://www.idasa.org.za/)
Specializing in public policy research on community policing, local government, education for democracy, economy and development, media, etc.

Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) (http://www.irinnews.org)
A unit of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “ ...pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda.”

International Committee of the Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org/eng)
A search of this English language version of the ICRC site provides reports on the current humanitarian initiatives of this organization in any given country.

International Monetary Fund (http://www.imf.org/)
The IMF is an “organization of 183 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.” A search by country will yield reports on the IMF’s initiatives and programs in it.

Ipheji labakhuluma isiZulu (http://www.geocities.com/ben%5Ffredlund/)
Zulu web-directory, discussion forums and chat room; in Zulu.

Jews of Africa (http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ejaypsand/index.htm)
History, culture, photo gallery of Jewish communities in Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sao Tome, Cape Verde, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (http://www.jha.ac/)
Published at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K., this site may be searched for articles in the journal concerning a particular country.

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (Braamfontein) (http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/jtsa/index.htm)
Published by South African Council of Churches; provides tables of contents and abstracts for 1972 through 1999 issues; full text of selected articles from current issue.

Knights of Malta (http://www.smom-za.org/bbg/goto.htm)
Relief organization in South Africa; describes health-, education-related projects accomplished by the organization. In English, German, Italian and Spanish.

National Game Parks (http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/botsnationalparks.html)
Commercial site. Links to game parks in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Includes photographic gallery, and information on animal behavior.

Open Directory Portal Page on Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
The Open Directory Projects portal page on Islam offers hundreds of citations on various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.

Parliamentary Millennium Project (http://www.pmpsa.gov.za/)
Photographs of archaeological artifacts are contrasted with Western antiquarian maps of Africa; project is supported by South African Parliament, Cape Town.

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (http://www.pmg.org.za)
Provides minutes of the proceedings of parliamentary committees; some available by subscription only. Includes list of selected bills before Parliament, information on bill status, schedules, reports, access to archives.

Peace Gallery -- Africa (http://www.peacegallery.org/africa/africa.htm)
Gallery of photographs for Botswana, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo.

Privacy International (http://www.privacyinternational.org/index.html)
Human Rights group based in London; 1999 report concerns South African privacy laws; includes full text of 45-page Promotion of Access to Information Act of South Africa.

Pro Veritate (Christian Institute of Southern Africa), 1962-1977 (http://disa.nu.ac.za/)
Three-year project to make South African material of great socio-political interest accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide; in its first phase, over 35 South African anti-apartheid journals are being digitized; links are available to full text articles.

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.

Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) (http://www.psam.ru.ac.za/)
Based at Rhodes University; monitors corruption in public sector; links to documents, current cases, audio interviews with officials, related online newspapers.

RDP Development Monitor (Craighall, South Africa) (http://www.development-sa.co.za/)
Academic journal launched in 1995, concerned with development and socioeconomic restructuring of South African infrastructure; includes selected full text articles. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) remains..."the single most important large scale development initiative in sub-saharan Africa...."

Reconciliation Net (http://www.reconciliation.org.za)
Provides many resources on reconciliation process including links to bibliography, online publications, other sites worldwide related to human rights; access to several searchable databases, including researchers, dissertations, articles and papers.

Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa (University of Cape Town) (http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/)
Presents history, mission, reports, conferences and workshops; links to Journal of Theology for South Africa, RICSA bulletin, and churches, ecumenical groups and South African political parties.

SANGOCO, South African National NGO Coalition (http://www.sangoco.org.za/)
"Core mission is to eradicate poverty..." Links to its newsletter, other publications; contact information.

ScoutWeb South Africa (http://www.scouting.org.za)
Links to newsletter, activities, events, regional scout group webpages, Scout Association and HIV/AIDS Programme, etc.

Social Change Assistance Trust (Cape Town) (http://www.scat.org.za)
"Our aim is to empower the rural poor, to strengthen civil society and promote social change." Provides information on history of organization, trustees, staff, funding projections.

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 Human Rights Commission (Johannesburg) (http://www.sahrc.org.za/)
Provides access to reports, hearings, related conferences; has extensive links to national and international human rights-related sites.

South African Institute of Race Relations (Braamfontein, South Africa) (http://www.sairr.org.za/)
Public policy research institute; links to its publications; full text available to members only.

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 Journal of Economic History (UNISA, South Africa) (http://home.intekom.com/joni/EHSOC.HTM)
Presented by the Economic History Society of Southern Africa; lists all articles published since 1986, abstracts of all articles from 1986 to 1995; links to members of editorial board, their affiliations and contact information; subscription information.

South African Network of Skills Abroad (http://sansa.nrf.ac.za/)
Provides database of individuals listed by profession.

South African Police (http://www.saps.org.za/)
The annual strategic plan, 2002 antiterrorism bill, safety tips, crime information/statistics, crime prevention, a kiddies corner, links to related sites.

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

Southern African Migration Project (http://www.queensu.ca/samp/) Research program facilitating new policy initiatives on migration; includes full text of selected articles, reports and its newsletter. Also links to numerous migration-related sites worldwide
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Development Experience Clearinghouse (http://www.dec.org)
“The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects, activities, and programs by making ... development experience documents available to USAID offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's, universities and research institutions,developing countries, and the public worldwide.”

Towards a National Language Plan for South Africa (http://www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/reports/langtag.html?rebookmark=1)
Summary of final report of the Language Plan Task Group (LANGTAG), 8 August 1996.

Transparency - South Africa (http://tisa.org.za/) Independent organization monitoring corruption, governance and ethics in the public sector.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/index.html)
Includes full text of multi-volume Final Report, assorted related documents, photographs, press releases and more.

UNCHR Country of Origin and Legal Information (http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home)
These databases, containing Country of Origin Information (COI) and Legal Information consist of selected reports and documents compiled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

UNRISD On-Line (U.N. Research Institute for Social Development) (http://www.unrisd.org/)
“UNRISD carries out research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates within and outside the United Nations system.

USAID Bureau for Africa (http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/)
Provides links to country, regional and sector information.

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." Siteoffers reports and information about the status and living situations of children in many countries.

United Nations Human Settlements Program- Regional Office for Africa and Arab States (ROAAS) (http://www.unhabitat.org/offices/roaas/)
ROAAS supports the Africa and Arab States region in implementing “The Habitat Agenda”, emphasizing its two main themes: "Adequate shelter for all" and "Sustainable urban development."

United Nations ReliefWeb (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/ByCountry/)
“ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)... serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief community” Offers news updates to crisis situations around the world and includes information about refugee camps and other relief efforts.

United States Committee for Refugees (USCR) (http://www.refugees.org/)
Founded in 1958 to complement the UN’s initiative to aid refugees, the USCR’s site offers brief and detailed reports on refugee status in and from the various countries of the world.

United States. Agency for International Development (USAID) (http://www.usaid.gov/)
“An independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.”

United States. Department of State Report on Human Rights Practices (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/)
This web site lists the reports for 1999-2001.

United States. Peace Corps (http://www.peacecorps.gov)
Official site. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/simba/PETE.html (http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/simba/PETE.html)
Presents full text of papers, dated 1996-1999, dealing in education, training, economy in South Africa.

Websites of U.S. embassies and consulates (http://usembassy.state.gov/)
Provides information on US government mission and services, and public and private sector information on each country.

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.

WildNet Africa.com (http://www.wildnetafrica.com/)
Commercial site with many links to: tourism, wildlife and eco-tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa, publications, photographic galleries, videos and feature articles on African societies.

Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon - Afrikaans (http://babel.uoregon.edu/)
Afrikaans language site. Includes an Afrikaans dictionary of 4,000 terms, links to literature, cultural sites and to the South African newspaper Die Burger.