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• Overview
  • Economy—overview: South Africa is a middle-income, developing country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region. However, growth has not been strong enough to cut into high unemployment, and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially the problems of poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups. Other problems are crime, corruption, and HIV/AIDS. At the start of 2000, President MBEKI vowed to promote economic growth and foreign investment, and to reduce poverty by relaxing restrictive labor laws, stepping up the pace of privatization, and cutting unneeded governmental spending. The economy slowed in 2001, largely the result of the slowing of the international economy. the  CIA Factfile.
• Government
  • SA Government Online One of the objectives of the South African Government is to operate as an integrated entity with a single corporate identity. The aim is to eliminate duplication and confusion. By developing a comprehensive government Home page, government has created a mechanism by which the information from government departments, provinces and other government bodies is accessible through a one-stop gateway. This will enable users to: get a comprehensive overview of information available on government web-sites quickly navigate the vast information resources available in government This site fulfills this objective extremely well and is a valuable resource.
  • Parliament of South Africa Provides information on developments at the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa for the purpose of facilitating public participation in parliamentary legislative processes. This is an excellent site that gives comprehensive information about the parliamentary process in South Africa and the information that an informed citizenry needs.
  • Department of Constitutional Development Local Government branch of the Department of Consitutional Development contains information on Local Government in South Africa.
  • Department of Minerals and Energy South African Government Dept of Mineral and Energy.
  • Department of Education South African Government Department of Education. Tirisano - working together
  • Department of Labour Official site of the Department of Labour, contains all labour legislation, policy documents, news and more.
  • Department of Agriculture South African Government Department of Agriculture. Contains links to other Agricultural web sites.

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• Business
  • Tradepage Directory of South African businesses, products and services on the Internet.
  • Business news at iafrica.com Covers local, african and international business news, the latest events, local and world links and links to more information updated hourly.
  • 1023 South African Business Directory of Companies Comprehensive and up to date directory of businesses with clickable map of South Africa.
  • SA Yellow Online Business Directory of South Africa.
    
• Culture
  • South Africa Online Entrance to the Web in Southern Africa. Includes currency rates, weather forecast, humour, surveys and site listings.
  • The International South Africans Resource Center is a free information source for South Africans living abroad and for those South Africans who wish to know more about how to move to another country.
  • Leriba lodge luxury hotel and Conference Venue, Pretoria

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• Radio/TV
  • 702 Talk Radio
  • 567 Cape Talk 567 mw - Cape Town's Talk Radio Station. We provide news, weather, finance and sport. Shows cover everything and anything to make Cape Town a fun place to live. Stay in touch with the city and the world.
  • Radio Algoa 94 - 97 FM from the Eastern Cape in South Africa
  • SABC Television
  • M DOT NET
  • Channel O
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• Newspapers
  • Weekly Mail & Guardian, The South Africa's leading independent newspaper.
  • Sunday Times, The weekly newspaper covering politics, sports, and current affairs, and analysis
  • Star, The

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• General
  • Ananzi Search Engine South Africa specific search engine.
    
• Books

	Culture Shock!: South Africa by Dee Rissik.
	The Rough Guide South Africa : Lesotho and Swaziland (South Africa (Rough Guides), 2nd Edition) The most thorough travel guide. It has handy easy-to-tear-out pages for those who prefer to travel light
	Insight Guide South Africa The guide is packed with information, covers serious issues: post-apartheid South Africa, the rise of the black middle class, with profiles of influential people; beautiful color illustrations

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