WWW Servers in South Africa

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER

Running a server for WWW requires a TCP/IP connection to get to it, the countries with the minimal capacity would be those reported to have TCP/IP connectivity. Those are, at last reading: South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

My personal knowledge only extends to a couple of South African WWW servers.

Try the following URLs:

Cape Town
  University of Cape Town - Matisse:
                http://matisse.eri.uct.ac.za
        Computer Science:
                http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/UCT.html
        Oceanography:
                http://emma.sea.uct.ac.za
        Enviromental & Geographical Science:
                http://hickory.egs.uct.ac.za
        Digital Image Processing:
                http://dip1.ee.uct.ac.za

Grahamstown
  Rhodes University:
                http://www.ru.ac.za
        Computer Science Department:
                http://cs.ru.ac.za
        Computer Users Society:
                http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za
  St Andrews College:
                http://canopus.ru.ac.za

Port Elizabeth
  University of Port Elizabeth:
                http://www.upe.ac.za

Durban
  University of Natal:
                http://www.und.ac.za
        Pollution Research Group:
                http://www.und.ac.za/prg/prg.html

Pietermaritzburg
  Institute for Commercial Forestry Research:
                http://www.icfrnet.unp.ac.za

Johannesburg
  Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit:
                http://www.rau.ac.za
  Witwatersrand (WITS) University:
                http://www.cs.wits.ac.za

Pretoria
  UNISA - Department of CS & Information Systems:
                http://osprey.unisa.ac.za
  CSIR - Council for Scientific & Industrial Research:
                http://crux.csir.co.za/csir/csir.html
  FRD - Foundation for Research and Development:
                http://www.frd.ac.za/

Other
  The Internet Solution:
                http://www.is.co.za
  Compustat (Pty) Ltd.:
                http://www.cstat.co.za
  ECOSERV (Pty) Ltd.:
                http://www.iaccess.za/ecoserv/index.html
  EMILY (Electronic Membrane Information Library):
                ftp://aqua.ccwr.ac.za/pub/emily/emily.html
  Computing Centre for Water Research:
                ftp://aqua.ccwr.ac.za/pub/ccwr/home.html
  Pam Golding Properties:
                http://www.iaccess.za/pgp/index.html

Now, for those who are interested in the information on these servers who have no access to TCP/IP, but at least have e-mail access, try the www-email server run at CERN in Switzerland. Compose your message according to this example:

============================================================
        From: Your Name 
          To: listserv@www0.cern.ch
     Subject: www http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za
------------------------------------------------------------
(and in the message body:)

              www http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za
              www ftp://aqua.ccwr.ac.za/pub/emily/emily.html
============================================================

You can request multiple documents with one message.

Happy surfing.

-- Peter

Newsgroups: bit.tech.africana
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 23:23:28 -0400
Message-ID: <9409210234.AA10214@nimbus.worldbank.org>
From: Peter Hellmonds ESDVP 35821 
Subject: WWW Servers in South Africa

Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar