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South Africa
Government, Military and Foreign Policy, and
Political Parties

• South Africa -- Constitutional Law and Human Rights (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• South African Government Web Pages
  • South African Government Online (Pretoria)
    
    
  • BuaNews. (Online) -- Pretoria, South Africa: Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), 2005-
    The online daily news from the South African government information service, featuring news of the day and reports from the last two weeks.
    
    
  • SA Government Departments or Ministries
    
    
  • SA Government Information -- Documents
    
    
  • South Africa. Central Statistical Service (Pretoria)
    • Statistics South Africa Home Page
    • Search for all Stats SA publications
    • Stats SA Time Series Data (Free access, with registration)
    • Statistics SA Census 2001
    • Statistics SA Digital Census Atlas
    
    
  • Polity.Org.Za: Policy and Law Online News (via Creamer Media, South Africa)
    SA government draft bills, bills, acts, notices, policy documents, speeches, and government policy-related news.
    
    
  • South African Consulate General and Permanent Mission to the UN in New York
    
    
  • SA Department of Foreign Affairs
    
    
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, 1998 and 2003 Release (Official and unofficial sites; via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (Rondebosch, South Africa)
  • The site offers general information about the research projects, other activities, and publications of the centre---online journals and reports. "[Founded in 1968, formerly Centre for Intergroup Studies] the CCR seeks to contribute towards a just peace in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa by promoting constructive, creative and co-operative approaches to the resolution of conflict and the reduction of violence."
  Reports, 1999--
  
  
• Centre for Policy Studies (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  Originally founded in 1987 at the University of the Witwatersrand, the CPS became an independent research institution in 1996. Research reports, policy briefs, and the newsletter "Synopsis" are available in downloadable PDF format from this African policy think tank's web site.
  
  
• e-Africa: the electronic journal of governance and innovation. (Online)--Archive, 2003-2005
  -- Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs.
  Between 2003 and 2005, SAIIA published this monthly e-journal as part of its NEPAD project on finding and assessing new policy alternatives in Africa. Back issues available in PDF format.
  
  
• Elections in South Africa 2009
  • Electoral Institute of Southern Africa on 2009 South African Elections (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    
    
  • Independent Electoral Commission (South Africa)
    -- Lists of Candidates by Political Party
    -- Voting Information
    
    
  • Mail & Guardian (Online): "South Africa Votes 2009" (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    
    
  • News24 on Elections 2009 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    
    
  • Pambazuka News on "South Africa's 2009 National Elections: Waiting to Exhale" (April 16, 2009) (Oxford, UK; Cape Town, South Africa)
    
    
  • Political Parties in South Africa -- Official Web Sites
    
    
  • Polity.Org.Za on "Election News in Review -- 2009" (via Creamer Media, South Africa)
    
    
  • "South African Elections 2009" Web Dossier: an online bibliography of publications and other resources on South African elections since 1994. African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Library, Documentation and Information Department (Leiden, The Netherlands)
    
  
  
• Federation of American Scientists: South Africa Special Weapons Guide ("Nuclear Forces Guide", FAS, Washington, DC)
  "The Federation of American Scientists conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy."
  
  
• Idasa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa)
  The website provides information about the activities of the institute, plus access to selections from various publications. "Idasa's mission is to promote a sustainable democracy in South Africa by building democratic institutions, educating citizens and advocating social justice."
  
  
• Institute for Global Dialogue (Midrand, South Africa)
  • The website features information about research on African international economic and foreign relations, with downloadable publication series.
  • See especially: Global Dialogue, Global Insight, and Occasional Papers
  
  
• Institute for Security Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • "The mission of the Institute for Security Studies is to enhance human security in Africa. This is achieved through applied research and the dissemination of information that can inform decisions on critical areas of individual, national, regional and international security. The Institute is committed to democracy, good governance and the promotion of common security. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) was originally established as the Institute for Defence Policy by Dr. J. K. Cilliers, and Mr. P-B Mertz in 1990 ..."
  • ISS Home Page
  • ISS Publications: monographs, papers, and reports -- available online!
  • African security review. (Online) -- Pretoria, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies, 1992--
    Current online issues and archive. "The African Security Review is the ISS bi-monthly journal published in conjunction with the Instituto Superior de Relações Internacionais in Maputo, Mozambique. ... The Review was previously published as the African Defence Review (1994) and the Southern African Defence Review (1992-1993)."
  
  
• Parliamentary Monitoring Group (South Africa)
  "...established in 1995 as a partnership between Black Sash, Human Rights Committee and Idasa with the aim of providing a type of Hansard for the proceedings of the more than forty South African Parliamentary Committees for these three advocacy organisations...PMG provides accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting."
  
  
• Political Parties of South Africa on the Internet:
  
  • African Christian Democratic Party
    
    
  • African National Congress
    - Official ANC Home Page
    
    - Brief biography of Jacob Zuma, ANC President, 2008-
    
    - The Thabo Mbeki Page: Biography, Photos, Speeches, Statements and Writings
    
    -- Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu -- Biographies and Obituary, May 5, 2003
    
    - ANC today. (Online). -- Marshalltown, South Africa: African National Congress, 2001- Published every Friday.
    - Umrabulo. (Online). -- Marshalltown, South Africa: African National Congress, Department of Political Education and Training, 1996-
    - The Mandela Page
    - African National Congress Archives, University of Fort Hare Library (Alice, South Africa)
    
    
  • Azanian Peoples' Organization (AZAPO)
    
    
  • Congress of the People (COPE)
    COPE Documents"
    
    
  • Democratic Alliance
    
    
  • Freedom Front Plus -- Vryheidsfront Plus
    
    
  • Independent Democrats Founded in 2003
    
    
  • Inkatha Freedom Party
    
    
  • Minority Front
    
    
  • South African Communist Party:
    - Official SACP Home Page
    - The SACP journals: African communist ;
    Umsebenzi & selected back issues
    
    
  • United Democratic Movement Founded in September 1997.
    
  
  
  
• South African Institute for Race Relations (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  The website features political commentaries on current issues and free access to sample issues of newsletters; plus information about research, membership, and the full range of publications. "[Since 1929] The South African Institute of Race Relations stands for constitutional and economic liberalism."
  
  
• South African Institute of International Affairs--Publications: Occasional papers, trade policy briefings & reports, eAfrica, SADC Barometer, SAIIA Foreign Policy Monitor (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  An archive of research papers and newsletters from SAIIA since 2001 in PDF formats.
  
  
• "South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy towards Africa" by Roger Pfister (Centre for International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) Electronic journal of Africana bibliograpy. (Online) ; vol. 6 (2000).
  
  
• United States Mission to South Africa: Embassy and Consulates (U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC)