Since the name of South Africa crops up now and again, here are some websites
for anyone who may be interested in finding out a bit more about that
country, especially if you are are intending to visit or conference there.
The official CIA fact book on South Africa:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/sf.html
Note that this information is correct only up to 1998 - Nelson Mandela has
retired and the new President is Thabo Mbeki. Otherwise, the rest of the
info is reasonably up to date.
Here is an official South Africa online website:
http://www.southafrica.co.za/
And the Independent Online News:
http://www.iol.co.za/
South African Sport:
http://www.ya.co.za/
The big issue at present is the use of creatine by world elite S African
swimmer, Penny Heyns, who recently broke three world records. See this
article for the nonsense on a supplemnt that numerous athletes are using, as
we all know:
http://www.ya.co.za/columns/netsession44.htm
The following is a site which gives many resources on the history of S Africa:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahistory.html
Here is a site which covers the late Mahatma Gandhi's vision for Africa:
http://www.anc.org.za:80/ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/vision.html
Travel and other facts on all of Africa:
http://hyperion.advanced.org/16645/contents.html
Here is a website on the Garden Route along the southern coast between Cape
Town and Port Elizabeth, a few hundred miles of the most exquisite coastal
paradise on this planet:
http://www.gardenroute.co.za/
This is an area where a huge amount of foreign purchasing of property is
taking place, especially since the dollar is about 6 times stronger than the
local currency. Another popular option is to make use of Time Share
operations to spend vacations along the Garden Route or in the Game Reserves
there. Websites such as the following give information on this option:
http://www.winchest.co.za/
For many other sites about this lovely country, use the following search
engine with the key words "South Africa":
http://www.metcrawler.com
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
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