Embedded Files
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user: maret password: frogs
Online Databases
Online Databases
Start with these sources to get an overview of your topic, understand the current state of your issues, and get basic statistics.
Encyclopedias
World History & Culture
- World Geography and Culture Online: South Africa (Check out the "Facts and Figures" menu on the left for stats)
- CultureGrams: South Africa (Look for Tools: Graphs and Tables on the right country stats)
Current Events & News
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context
- SIRS Issues Researcher
- New York Times (on-campus access only)
Websites
Websites
General Information
- CIA World Factbook: South Africa
- Statistics South Africa
- Afrobarometer Survey 2015
- OECD: South Africa Statistical Profile
- UNICEF Statistic: South Africa
- World Bank Data: South Africa
- South Africa's Inequality Is Only Getting Worse (Quartz)
- South Africa in 2018: Is There a Good Story to Tell? (News 24)
Democracy & Politics
- Voter Registration Statistics (Electoral Commission of South Africa, Nov. 2018)
- Voter Turnout Database (IDEA)
- Global State of Democracy (IDEA)
- South Africa's Healthy Democracy (Foreign Affairs, Feb. 2018)
- Women in Power: What Do the Statistics Say? (Stats SA, Aug. 2017)
- Trends in Voting in South Africa 2003-2014 (Population Studies Center)
Disease & HIV/AIDS
- UNAIDS: South Africa
- HIV and AIDS in South Africa (Avert)
- AIDSinfo (UN) *Choose National: South Africa for country-specific info
- World Health Organization: South Africa
- Health and Health Care in South Africa—20 Years After Mandela (New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2014)
Economy & Unemployment
- The Good and the Bad in South Africa's Economy Right Now (Business Tech, Apr. 2018)
- Economic Growth (Stats SA)
- Poverty on the Rise in South Africa (Stats SA, Aug. 2017)
- World Bank Data: South Africa
Education
- Education (Stats SA)
- Education Policy and Data Center: South Africa
- UNESCO -Education and Literacy: South Africa
- World Bank Education Statistics: South Africa
- Complicit in Exclusion (Human Rights Watch, 2015)
- World Bank Data: South Africa
Health Care
- African Health Stats
- Public Health Care: How Much per Person? (Stats SA, Oct. 2017)
- World Health Organization: South Africa
- Stats SA: Health
- Health and Health Care in South Africa—20 Years After Mandela (New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2014)
Segregation & Human Rights
- Mapping Diversity (Stats SA, May 2016)
- South African Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights Watch: South Africa
- South Africa's President Alarms Investors with Land Grab Proposal (CNBC, Aug. 2018)
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