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South African political science departments

University of Cape Town
Staff and course information.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/politics/

University of the Free State
Information about staff, expertise and programmes.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/humanities/polit/index.htm

University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
Basic course information, links to politics-related resources and the University of Natal's Centre for Government and Policy Studies.
http://www.hs.unp.ac.za/politics/

University of the North West
List of modules offered only.
http://www.uniwest.ac.za/Faculties/Commerce/Dept_PolSc/
Political%20Studies%20and%20IRL.htm

University of Port Elizabeth
Basic staff and programme information, apparently dating to 1998.
http://www.upe.ac.za/polsci/phom.htm

Rand Afrikaans University
Minimal course information, single departmental contact address, list of staff research areas and publications.
http://www.rau.ac.za/politics/politics_E.htm

Rhodes University
Course information, profiles of postgraduate students and an "events" section.
http://www.ru.ac.za/academic/departments/politics/

University of Stellenbosch
General departmental information, including information about the Centre for International and Comparative Politics. Extensive links to politics resources.
http://www.sun.ac.za/polwet/polwet.htm

University of the Witwatersrand
Information about staff and courses.
http://www.wits.ac.za/fac/arts/politics/index.htm

University of Zululand
Basic information about modules and qualifications.
http://www2.uzulu.ac.za/UZ/programs/findProg.php?f=C&d=CP

South African professional associations

South African Political Science Association
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~sapsa/

Political science research methodology textbooks

The Yenza! research section contains an annotated list of research methodology texts in use in South African higher education.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/research/polsci.htm

Miscellaneous South African resources

Links to a variety of Political Science resources, media, and South African tertiary institutions can be found at http://www.geocities.com/~anntothill/

African National Congress
The ANC's web site is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in South African politics. Apart from information about the ANC and ANC documents, the site offers links to a large selection of politically-oriented sites in South Africa and around the world:
http://www.anc.org.za/

Unwembi's Resource of South African Government
Good source of government information.
http://www.polity.org.za/

International collections of resources

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
Richard Kimble of Keele University in the UK maintains a gateway to most significant sources relevant to political science. Included are Official Government web sources; Information about Governments; Constitutions, Treaties and Official Declarations; Elections and Electoral Systems; Political Parties, Interest Groups and other political movements; Political Thought, Area Studies, Local and Regional Government; International Relations; Collections of Social, Economic and other data; Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers; Bibliographic Tools; and other politics servers:
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

Political Methodology Section (American Political Science Association)
The primary purpose of this home-page is to serve as a gateway to an Electronic Paper-Archive. Abstracts of conference papers online and full-text papers.
http://web.polmeth.ufl.edu/

The African Association of Political Science is "a pan-African organisation of scholars whose mandate is to promote the study and application of political science in and about Africa." The AAPS web site includes information about publications and a small selection of links.
http://www.aaps.co.zw/

Africa Online provides headline news, news from and about Africa, stockmarket updates and the like in African updates. Also provides hot links to newspapers and magazines online (general and by country). It is available at http://www.africaonline.com/

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences (Athabasca University)
http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Political Science
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/PoliSci/polisci.htm

World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs
http://www.etown.edu/vl/

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