• Access to information is guaranteed in section 32 of the Constitution of South Africa. Offering citizens access to state-held information is "one of the...
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  • access to scholarly communication in South Africa occurs online via journals, repositories, and a variety of other tools and platforms. Compared to other...
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    Freedom of information is freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. Access to information is the ability for an individual to seek,...
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    work in conjunction with the Promotion of Access to Information Act. The President of South Africa assented to the Act on 19 November 2013. As part of the...
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    with the appropriate international access code and the country code +27. Numbers were allocated when South Africa had only four provinces, meaning that...
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    Educational Systems in S.A Education in South Africa is governed by two national departments, namely the Department of Basic Education (DBE), which is...
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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres...
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    elections will be held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces...
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    The Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (or PAIA; Act No. 2 of 2000) is a freedom of information law in South Africa. It gives the constitutional...
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    Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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    2024, South African citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 108 countries and territories, ranking the South African passport 53rd in the world...
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    1991, South African universities were connected through UNINET to the Internet. Commercial Internet access for businesses and private use began in June...
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  • SOC Limited is a South African wireline and wireless telecommunications provider, operating in more than 38 countries across the African continent. Telkom...
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    Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (PAIA). SAHA was founded in the 1980s as increasing state censorship in South Africa threatened to obscure the...
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  • Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments...
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    South Africa's genocide case against Israel was brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023 by South Africa regarding...
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    northern Africa to the west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya). This name seems to have...
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    institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised...
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    economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. The economy...
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    South Africa is a tourist destination with the tourist industry accounting for 2.34% of GDP in 2019 followed by a sharp drop in 2020 to 0.81% of GDP due...
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    Library of South Africa is the agency of the government of South Africa which maintains a national library of all published materials relating to the country...
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  • 2024[update], citizens of South Africa enjoyed visa-free access to 108 countries, of which some may require pre-travel registration according to the Visa Restrictions...
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    South Africa also has a strong water industry with a track record in innovation. However, much less progress has been achieved on sanitation: Access increased...
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  • characterisation of the gap between individuals or countries that have access to information and communications technologies, primarily telecommunications and...
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    corruption in South Africa. One of the main issues highlighted by this survey is South Africans' lack of access to information regarding how to report corrupt...
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    In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refers to an underdeveloped racially segregated urban area, from the late 19th century until the...
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  • Educational technology in sub-Saharan Africa refers to the promotion, development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT), m-learning...
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    South Africa is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population. Islam in South Africa...
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    to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. In 1999, Unesco designated the region the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. South Africa's...
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    bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in South Africa have the same legal rights as non-LGBT people. South Africa has a complex and diverse history regarding...
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