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Free access to African caselaw, legislation and journals
Provides access to South African Bills introduced in the National Assembly from 1998 to the present.
Census (South African 1996, 2001 & 2011)
The Community Profile Database provides South African population census data in 14 sub-databases, published by Statistics South Africa. Data can be accessed by province, magisterial district, municipality and local area, using SuperTable software.

Available on standalone workstations in the Government Publications Dept., Level 4, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library.
"The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c.1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research that should be possessed by any academic library. The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad."
As the custodian and publisher of Government Gazettes – the official publications used by government to communicate messages of national importance to the general public – GPW now also provides its customers with convenient electronic access to submit content, read current gazettes and access back issues. Government Printing Works, Current, from 2012
Provides access to the full text of the South African Government Gazette and Weekly Government Gazette Index. The database includes acts, bills, draft bills, green papers,white papers, and regulations published in the Government Gazette. Also included are general notices, government notices, press releases, board notices, legal notices and proclamations.
Retrospective Government Gazettes Archive gives access to the full text of South African Government Gazettes from 1910 to 1993.
Provides access to individual notices and proclamations, an overview of legislation and detailed summaries of recently promulgated Acts.
Access is limited to 1 user at a time.
The Local Government Handbook: South Africa is an annual print publication published by Yes Media. The information on the website is similar to that in the Handbook, although it is updated on a continual basis.
Free online English dictionary and thesaurus, including audio pronunciation.
The National Government Handbook – South Africa is an annual print publication published by Yes Media. The information on the website is similar to the information contained in the annual print publication, although it may be updated on a continuous basis.
NetLaw provides access to 828 updated principal acts, rules and regulations from 1910 to the present.
OECD’s Online Library containing all books and papers published since 1998 as well as a vast collection of statistics with data going back to the early 1960s. UCT access does not include the IEA statistics.
Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.
The biggest freely available collection of gazettes in South Africa.
Access by password and restricted to certain minutes - please contact the Government Publications Library on 021 650 3177.
The Provincial Government Handbook – South Africa is an annual print publication published by Yes Media. The information on the site is similar to the information contained in the annual print publication, although it may be updated on a continuous basis.
The Southern African Legal Information Institute publishes legal information for free public access which comprises mainly of case law and legislation from South Africa.
The Standards Division of the SABS has changed its name and is now developing and publishing standards under the banner of Standards South Africa. All of national standards have been redesignated as SANS (South African National Standards), as opposed to SABS standards.
The Survey is published annually providing a deep-dive analysis of the major trends shaping South Africa across 14 social and economic fields from the economy, government finance, and living standards, to healthcare, crime, education, and demographics. A statistical reference guide to the trends that will shape a future South Africa which makes the Survey an essential resource for the strategy and marketing teams of any firm with interests in South Africa.
Compilation of books, pamphlets, government publications, microforms, maps, technical reports, and periodicals published in South Africa. Updated monthly.
South Africa under apartheid was highly bureaucratic and commissions of inquiry were often instituted either to justify actions taken against opponents of apartheid or to provide the government with justification for acting against its opponents. Commissions of inquiry thus constitute an important piece of the history of the struggle for freedom. Although the reports of the commissions are often readily available, the minutes of evidence, which contain testimony from both sides of the struggle, were usually not published and copies of them are extremely rare.
To understand freedom struggles, it is necessary to know what people were struggling against. This collection includes some 30 key pieces of legislation from South Africa, selected by Gail Gerhart and Chris Saunders, as well as the text of Muriel Horrell s Legislation and Race Relations, a summary of the main South African laws that affect race relationships (Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations 1971).
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
The documents are reproduced from the archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), located in the Union Buildings at Tshwane, South Africa. JSTOR is grateful to Mr C. (Neels) Muller of that Department for granting access to the documents and allowing them to be scanned. Among the documents are incoming and outgoing letters, memoranda, and transcripts of meetings between officials of the South African government and other governments, especially the United States.
Notes and Documents, published from 1968 to 1991, was among the most important sources of information on apartheid both for the United Nations and for the international anti-apartheid movement. It started under the auspices of the Special Committee Against Apartheid. Until 1976, the unit in the UN Secretariat responsible for publication was called the Unit on Apartheid; thereafter it was called the 'Centre Against Apartheid.'
This collection contains a selection of documents from the United Nations on several Southern African countries.
The Special Committee against Apartheid was the driving force behind UN action to isolate the apartheid regime in South Africa and support the movement for a nonracial democratic society.

After 10 years of futile annual appeals to the South African government to abandon racial discrimination and repression, the UN General Assembly decided, on 6 November 1962, to request governments to apply economic and other sanctions to dissuade South Africa from its apartheid policy.
Although the U.S. Congress generally defers to executive branch officials on foreign policy matters, in the 1970s and 1980s this legislative body became an important factor in U.S. policy toward Southern Africa. In 1975, Congress acted to block continued U.S. military intervention in Angola; in 1986, it passed sanctions against apartheid South Africa over the veto of President Ronald Reagan. Such decisive acts were rare, but congressional committees held numerous hearings and congressional delegations visited Southern Africa frequently during these years.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers (previously The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers) are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment.
UN Comtrade stands for United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database. Every year over 130 countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country. These data are processed into a standard format with consistent coding and valuation. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries, or derived from monthly market rates and volume of trade.
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