Southern Africa Support Project Collection
Southern African References in the American Society of African Culture Collection
The U.S. National Archives United States Economic Files (
1945-1973)
- International Development Research
Centre, Acacia Initiative
- IDRC (Ottawa, Canada) initiated project (with international
partners) to empower sub-Saharan African communities to apply information
and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development.
It has reports on rural connectivity,
education (distance learning, cellular connectivity, Uninet, SchoolNet),
income generation, governance, health, internet access, national strategies
for Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa. Has a discussion
list, acacia-L; past discussions are on the web site. http://www.idrc.ca/acacia
- International Development
Research Centre, Connectivity, Southern Africa (Ottawa, Canada)
- Mainly on school connectivity. Maintained by Chris Geerdts. http://www.idrc.org.za/connectsa/
- International Development Research
Centre, South Africa Regional Office
- Sponsors a Southern Africa Connectivity Project. http://www.idrc.org.za
- Journal
of Southern African Studies.
- Information on submitting articles, subscribing, editorial board members
and their affiliations. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/03057070.html
- Journal
of Southern African Studies List. jsas-open
- A "list for discussion amongst readers of the Journal of Southern
African Studies of the Journal's contents and Southern African issues
generally." The list owner is Colin Stoneman, email address: JSAS-OPEN-request@jiscmail.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/JSAS-OPEN.html
To join jsas-open visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=jsas-open&A=1
Leave the Subject area blank. In the Message area put: join jsas-open
firstname(s) lastname
- Made in SADC News Service
- Investment, business news on SADC countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe. For each country has basic information, investment, trade
information, useful addresses. Has past news releases. KF
http://www.sadcexpo.org/
- Netherlands Institute for Southern
Africa
- "...established in 1997, is an independent institute... on the region
of Southern Africa. NiZA also funds projects in the region and mediates for
the support of projects by others." Publishes newsletters in Dutch (NIZA
Newsletter, Newsletter Amsterdam-Beira, Zuidelijk Afrika magazine),
has a list of monographic publications. Its library issues many
bibliographies (some free, some for sale). http://www.niza.nl/\
- Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, OSISA
- In English and Portuguese. Non-profit foundation established by George Soros. Provides grants to organizations. Operates in Angola, Mozambique; Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland; Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Programs in Human Rights and Democracy Building; Media; Education; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Economic Justice. Has Guidelines for Proposal Writing and Preparing Budgets. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa. [KF] http://www.osisa.org
- Project on Defense
Alternatives, PDA (Cambridge, MA)
- The PDA and the Study Group on Alternative Security Policy, (Bonn, Germany)
provide the full-text of two reports, "Building Confidence into
the Security of Southern Africa" and "Key Issues
in Current South African Defense Planning". The reports concern
the direction of South African defence planning and the development of regional
military co-operation. http://www.comw.org/pda/pdahome.htm
- SADC Barometer (Johannesburg)
- Published by the South African Institute of International Affairs. Full
text issues on-line. Topics covered include trade, transport, regional
integration, HIV / AIDS, the food crisis, women's empowerment in Southern
Africa. Includes maps, charts. Receive issues by email. http://www.wits.ac.za/saiia/online.htm
- SADC Parliamentary Forum
- The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum is a regional inter parliamentary body composed of twelve parliaments - Angola Botswana Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Zambia and Zimbabwe. It "developed and adopted Electoral Norms and Standards for the SADC region." Full text documents such as "Declaration of Principles FOR International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers" Profiles of member parliaments. Links to related SADC sites. Based in Windhoek, Namibia. [KF] http://www.sadcpf.org/
- SADC Today (Harare)
- Full text articles on economic, political and sporting event in Southern
Africa. Published by SARDC, Southern African
Research and Documentation Centre on behalf of the SADC Secratariat in
Gaborone, Botswana. http://www.sardc.net/editorial/sadctoday/
- SAIMMIG.CALS - Southern African Migration Discussion Group
- Discussion email list started by Jonathan Klaaren, while at the Centre
for Applied Legal Studies, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, on legal and policy
issues related to Southern African migration/immigration. To subscribe send
email to: listproc@demiurge.wn.apc.org
In the message area put: subscribe saimmig.cals
Or send email to: jonathan.klaaren@yale.edu
- SANGONET
- Site for the NGO sector in South Africa. Has an NGO directory, PRODDER. Provides Website Design, Hosting, Database Design for civil society organizations. Offers internet training, information communication technology (ICT) strategic planning, linux local area networks setup. Based in Johannesburg. http://sangonet.org.za/
- SAPES Trust
- The Trust promotes regional scholarship and publications, public debate
and policy dialogue on critical political and socio-economic problems which
affect the SADC region. Areas of research include peace and security, environment,
land reform, economic policy, gender, social policy, governance. Publishes
the magazine, Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly. Based
in Harare, Zimbabwe. http://www.sapes.co.zw/
- South African Airways
- One can get a Personal Aviation Kit (trip planner) giving flight times
for certain dates to specific cities, info on weather, sightseeing, business/financial
info, transport, immigration. Alot of information here; they even have a
mailing list. http://www.saa.co.za/
- Southern Africa Information Access,
Inc. - Africa in Washington
- SAIA has a directory of U.S.
government Africa-related programs and activities, a directory of
Africa-related agencies and activities in Washington, D.C., and parliamentary/legislative
information, edited by Ray Copson. Maintained by Russell Ayers. http://www.saia.org/
http://www.gca-cma.org/emenu.htm
- Southern Africa Report (Toronto,
Canada)
- Long established print magazine, by the editorial collective of the Toronto
Committee for Links Between Southern Africa and Canada. Full
text articles from July 1992 to October 2000. Find articles by
author, country, subject, full text search. Analysis of events in Southern
Africa
and the policies of Canada and other
western
governments relevant to Southern
African countries. http://www.africafiles.org/sar.asp
- Southern African Customs Union, SACU
- "(SACU) consists of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. ... established in 1910, ..." Text of agreements, press releases, WTO | Trade policy review - Southern African Customs Union reports (1998, 2003), etc. Based in Windhoek, Namibia. http://www.sacu.int/
- Southern African Development Community
(SADC)
- In English, French, Portuguese. Members are Angola, Botswana, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Has full text reports,
including statistics, on these sectors: Culture, Information and Sport,
Regional Drug Control Programme, Gender, Health, Human Resources, Development,
Employment and Labour, Transport, Communications, Meteorology, Tourism. Also
links to other
SADC units/organizations, full text issues (in Adobe pdf) of its magazine, SADC
Today. Based in Gaborone, Botswana. http://www.sadc.int
- Southern African Development Community,
SADC
- From MBendi Information Services. Background of SADC, very useful basic
and directory information.
http://www.sadc.int/
- Southern African Development
Community. Standardisation, Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Metrology
SADC-SQAM
- http://www.sadc-sqam.org/
- Southern African Migration
Project
- A research programme to facilitate the formulation of new policy initiatives
on migration in Southern Africa and to promote awareness of the role/contributions
of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa. The project is funded
by the Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA. Partners include
Queen's University (Canada) and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa,
IDASA. Has the full
text of some articles and reports. http://www.queensu.ca/samp/
- Southern African Regional Poverty
Network
- Established by the Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria. Its purpose
is "To provide a facility for raising the level and quality of public
debate on poverty across the Southern African Development Community - SADC." Has
full text papers from a 2001 conference on Land
Reform and Poverty Alleviation in Southern Africa, also additional
papers on HIV/AIDS and land in KwaZulu-Natal, poverty
issues by country and poverty
indicators by country and an online newsletter. [KF] http://www.sarpn.org.za/
- Southern African Renewable
Energy Information Network
- Co-operation between the European Union and Southern African countries
(Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland
and Zimbabwe). http://www.etsu.com/sarein/
- Southern African Research and Documentation
Centre, SARDC
- "an independent regional information centre involved in the collection,
production and dissemination of information about the SADC region." Access
is slow. Has a free online database of citations to books, monographs,
journal articles, government publications on democracy. Has a directory
of experts on the environment. Its Interaise Database has more than 300
citations (with abstracts) on environmental and natural resources assessment
reports on southern Africa. Lists their publications including SADC Today.
Based in Harare, Zimbabwe. http://www.sardc.net/
- Southscan (London)
- E version of the respected print bulletin of Southern African affairs.
Has the table of contents for issues from 1994 + http://southscan.gn.apc.org/
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