http://www.is.co.za/www-za.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

South African WWW servers

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Pretoria

UNISA (University of South Africa): Information about study at Unisa. Also information regarding on-campus Internet services, a WWW Library, other WWW sites in South Africa, the WWW Worm, Archieplex, mirrors and many more.
UNISA Computer Science: Information about the Computer Science department, staff directory, and research projects. Home pages of: UNISA academic ftp server, South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, and world wide virtual tourist pages for South Africa.
CSIR: Services provided by the CSIR and its 12 operational units, and other information such as the "Biennial Conference and Exhibition on Telecommunications in South Africa (Telcom 95')." The CSIR is the largest community- and industry-directed scientific and technological research and development organization in Africa. Unofficial, still under construction.
SOS Children's Villages Association of South Africa: SOS Children's Villages is an international organisation dedicated to the wellbeing of children. Their project in Mamelodi includes the SOS Computer Training Centre. Among other services it offers what is believed to be the first full Internet connection in a South African township.
University of Pretoria: Academic, general and fun-related information. Links to various services available on campus, including home pages from different departments.
Technikon Pretoria: General information about Technikon Pretoria and also home pages of departments.

Johannesburg

The Internet Solution: Commercial Internet access. Watch this server for new on-line services. Home of the annotated list of South African WWW servers and the associated map. Contact: info@is.co.za.
University of the Witwatersrand, Computer Science Department: Information about staff and postgraduates, as well as links to the ftp and gopher sites. Home of the FAQs on Africa, South Africa, and South African Wine.
Rand Afrikaans University: Under construction, not official yet. Contains announcement of 'The 11th International Information Security Conference' in Cape Town from 9-12 May 1995, RAU-Library Services, a local telephone directory and Country Classification Codes.
Systems Publishers: A specialist technical publisher based in Johannesburg, South Africa. This server contains information on publications and activities, as well as subscription and contact information. Also the home of the Digital Cafe.
DNS Resources Directory: References to essential online and offline resources for Domain Name System administrators worldwide. Contact András Salamon andras@dns.net.
PCB Technologies: Information on a wide variety of information technology products and services offered by PCB. Find out about The Milky Way Internet Cafe and explore links to other interesting information on Southern Africa. Contact: Info@pcb.co.za.
SDD (Siltek Distribution Dynamics): Southern Africa's premier distributors of SCO UNIX; Epson printers; Fujitsu PC Peripheral Products; Proteon, Pure Data, Thomas Conrad, and Xircom network adaptors; Novell and Shiva networking products; Tripp Lite UPS's; Seagate & Fujitsu hard drives; Wangtek tape streamers; AST, DFI and Hewlett Packard personal computers; Chase Research network solutions; and JSB Multi-View, Pacific Data Products, Aldus, Borland, Central Point Software, Lotus, Micrografx, Microsoft, Quarterdeck, Symantec, Wordperfect, Travelling Software, Adaptec, Rexon, Syquest, and Groupwise (among others). Sales and technical information for all these products can be found on this server.
PiX: PiX is a leading Internet Service Provider based in Johannesburg, South Africa. This server is used to provide a springboard for clients to access the rest of the Internet, to provide a platform to place home pages, to apply for a wide range of services, and to update services on the PiX system. Contact: ant@pix.za (Anthony Gerada).
Connectica: Home of PCBoard BBS software in South Africa. Also offers WWW home pages to end users and files related to Flight Simulation. Contact: ian@nez.com (Ian Gerada).
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC): The national broadcaster of South Africa, broadcasting both radio and television. This server is under construction but will have information on the various business units, the internal magazine, and items of public interest such as schedules, phone lists, broadcast research and SABC history. Contact Greg Mallett mallettg@sabc.co.za.
Constitutional Repository at WITS law: The Constitutional Repository at the University of the Witwatersrand Law School contains judgements of the South African Constitutional Court, links to constitutional sites/documents of interest and general information about the law school.
Johannesburg Africus Biennale 1995: Visit the Johannesburg Biennale International Art Exhibition: First ever on-line gallery of artists and their work, curators, catalog of the exhibition and a Biennale Bulletin Board of current events and information. Sponsored by PCB Technologies and The Internet Solution.
Software 4 Africa: Electronic Shopping Mall, Showdata On-line Information System. The server is still under construction but working.

Durban

Pollution Research Group: The Pollution Research Group (PRG) conducts research in a range of environmental engineering approaches, problems and processes. The PRG is based at the University of Natal, Durban. These pages are maintained by members of the PRG.
Natural Products Research Group (University of Natal): Information about the NPRG and its activities, as well as links to chemistry-related places on the Net. Still under construction.
Vironix Corporation: Suppliers of high-quality, low-cost communications software for the global market. Great believers in 'Local is Lekker'! Includes information about the Windows communications package - WinRamp Lite.
Internet Africa (DURBAN): This server contains information about Internet access in Natal. It also has advertising with local significance.

Pietermaritzburg

ICFR (Institute for Commercial Forestry Research): It is the ICFR's mission to serve the South African forestry industry by undertaking relevant, timeous research that has the objective of supplying the commercial timber producers with the information required to optimise the beneficial use of forestry resources in South Africa. Contains all research material, bulletins & newsletters published by the ICFR.
EMILY (Electronic Membrane-Information Library): EMILY was conceived to become the electronic repository of information on membranes and membrane processes. Essentially an ftp site, it now has limited WWW capabilities. Maintained by Quentin Hurt <hurtq@aqua.ccwr.ac.za> as part of a Water Research Commission project.
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg: Campus Information System for the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Contains public information about UNP, including info on departments' curricula, student services information, campus maps, staff profiles etc.

Port Elizabeth

Static Designs: Server specifically dedicated to the computer-generated imaging arts (CGI), including raytracing and 3D modelling. Many images and links online.

Grahamstown

Rhodes University: Rhodes-specific information, as well as information relating to networking in Southern Africa. There is also a link to the ZA news hierarchy. This is *not* officially mandated information.
RUCUS (Rhodes University Computer Users Society): A student based organisation, along the lines of MIT's SIPB, which provides various computer based services for Rhodes students (courses, logins, etc...). This WWW server is a means of providing information to members, and to any other interested persons.
Rhodes University Computer Science Department: Information specific to the Computer Science Department of Rhodes University. Includes information about courses and research interests of staff and students.

Stellenbosch

Active Access: Internet access to private individuals and businesses, offering users their own home pages, and soon commercial pages as well. Still under construction.
University of Stellenbosch, J.S. Gericke Library: This server is completely experimental. It may not stay on air for much longer. Unofficial.

Cape Town

University of Cape Town (UCT): The official server of UCT. Information about the university, the online phone book, and links to departmental WWW servers.
South African Astronomical Observatory: The facilities of the South African Astronomical Observatory. More information will be added in the future.
Africa.Com (Southern Scientific): Specialised services to the SA Business and Technology communities, a browse and feedback SA Tourism facility to attract visitors to our shores, and property advertising in association with New York based Global Electronic Marketing Services (GEMS).
Aztec Information Management: Aztec supplies internet services to businesses and individuals. A part of these services is placing information of academic or commercial interest on these WWW pages. Also features links to interesting sites around the world. For more information please contact webmaster@aztec.co.za.
Dimension Data: Information on products that we sell. General interest to computer comms people. Info about Cape Town and environs. It is presently run as an experiment and the software is Beta software.
Compustat's W3 Advanced Services Division: A wide range of South African commerical services, products and corporations. Real estate information, including the Pam Golding site. Hosts commercial W3 pages; specialists in building database applications for serving data via a W3 front end. Serves both public (unauthorised) and secure (authorised access) data via the Internet. For more information, contact mikelane@iaccess.za (Michael Lane).
Mosaic Software (Pty) Ltd: The company specialises in the integration of data communications, distributed systems management, and on-line transaction processing and is highly experienced in Electronic Funds Transfer systems. Also contains the home page of the South African Computer Journal. For more information contact info@mosaic.co.za.
Eagle Technology: Information on Eagle Technology products. Currently has pages on analog to digital and multifunction PC cards and associated software products.
Sharenet: South African financial information including real time Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and SA Futures Exchange (SAFEX) prices, daily download services and more.
Western Cape Schools' Network: The Western' Cape Schools Network is a non-profit school networking organization and service provider. This Web server lists details of connected schools and other information on local school networking and educational computing.
Internet Africa: Internet Africa (formerly TICSA) is Southern Africa's oldest commercial Internet service provider. This server lists information about services and pricing, as well as new nodes operation and opening in South Africa's major centres and neighbouring states.
African National Congress: This presents in WWW format what the ANC has for a long time been presenting through its gopher/ftp site.

CERN Geographical List of WWW servers

andras@is.co.za / The Internet Solution / last updated 13 April 1995