Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

Current editor(s): Ralph Smith

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Volume 50, issue 3, 2024

Editorial pp. 355-358

Justin Pearce

Editorial pp. 359-361

Zoë Groves

Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice pp. 363-391

Ana Balona de Oliveira

A Visible Problem pp. 393-412

Simon Gush

Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications pp. 413-429

Ângela Ferreira

Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico pp. 431-446

Jo Ractliffe and Daniela Montelongo

South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity pp. 447-468

Annchen Bronkowski

‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa pp. 469-483

Zolani Ngwane

Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe pp. 485-498

Xinsong Wang

Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD pp. 499-520

Peter Delius, Linell Chewins and Tim Forssman

Volume 50, issue 2, 2024

Editorial pp. 189-194

Colin Bundy

Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia pp. 195-206

Robert Macdonald

The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order pp. 207-224

Andries du Toit

‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89 pp. 225-243

Daniel L. Douek

An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle pp. 245-262

Billy Keniston

The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956 pp. 263-284

Thaddeus Sunseri

One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa pp. 285-307

Manuel Bollmann

Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance pp. 309-329

Sara Van Hoeymissen

‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973 pp. 331-346

Teverayi Muguti and Sandra Swart

Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia pp. 347-349

Roger Southall

Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war pp. 350-351

Paul Landau

Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity pp. 351-352

Wonder Maguraushe

Correction pp. 353-353

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 1, 2024

Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions pp. 1-7

Alex Beresford

‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District pp. 9-28

Irvin Sifiso Jiyane

Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–1922 pp. 29-48

T. Dunbar Moodie

A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62 pp. 49-68

Philip Gooding and Nadia Fekih

‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 69-90

Hans Olsson

Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe pp. 91-109

Joshua Matanzima

A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia pp. 111-131

Robby Kapesa

International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement pp. 133-151

Matthew Graham and Christopher Fevre

A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap pp. 153-177

Janne Rantala

Geography and nation building pp. 179-181

Wolfram Hartmann

African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s pp. 181-183

Colin Darch

The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa pp. 183-185

Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba

Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre pp. 185-187

Mesrob Vartavarian

Volume 49, issue 5-6, 2023

Editorial pp. 727-732

Colin Bundy

Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa pp. 733-742

Mignonne Breier

Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s pp. 743-764

Leslie Bank

Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952 pp. 765-780

Hlengiwe Ndlovu

Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952 pp. 781-804

Mignonne Breier

Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963 pp. 805-822

Katie Carline

The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952 pp. 823-840

William Beinart and Colin Bundy

A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970 pp. 841-860

Lieneke de Visser

Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA pp. 861-887

Lazlo Passemiers

Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965 pp. 889-906

Erik Green and Mark Nyandoro

Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers? pp. 907-925

Joshua Bell and Sally Matthews

‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana pp. 927-946

Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa

In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony pp. 947-964

Francois Johannes Cleophas

Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa pp. 965-985

Thembisa Waetjen and Perside Ndandu

Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development pp. 987-1002

Yanyin Zi

Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions pp. 1003-1021

Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru

‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa pp. 1023-1039

Gary Kynoch

The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign pp. 1041-1065

Ralph Shield

Obituary pp. 1067-1068

Gerald Chikozho Mazarire

Apartheid’s hidden histories pp. 1069-1071

Jeff Peires

Politics and science in South Africa pp. 1071-1072

Jacob Dlamini

Memories of an ambiguous federation legacy pp. 1073-1075

Euan Nisbet

The politics of faith pp. 1075-1077

Jean Comaroff

Volume 49, issue 4, 2023

Editorial pp. 525-527

Dennis Walder

‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum, 1951–1960 pp. 529-551

Zachary Fleishman

African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) pp. 553-567

Mutale T. Mazimba

Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance pp. 569-588

Martin Kalb

How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos pp. 589-610

Rachel Wynberg, Sarah Ives and June Bam

Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931 pp. 611-635

Laurence Stewart

Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System pp. 637-659

Borja García, Henk Erik Meier and Louis Moustakas

‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe pp. 661-676

Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo

Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique pp. 677-695

Domingos Manuel do Rosário and Egídio Guambe

The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania pp. 697-716

Robert Macdonald, Thomas Molony and Victoria Lihiru

Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? pp. 717-718

Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma

Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa pp. 718-720

Jeremy Seekings

The making of South African revolutionaries pp. 720-725

Alex Lichtenstein

Volume 49, issue 3, 2023

The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction pp. 339-357

Alexander Caramento, Richard G. Saunders and Miles Larmer

Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania pp. 359-375

Japhace Poncian

Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania pp. 377-395

Aidan Barlow

Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election pp. 397-414

James Musonda and Miles Larmer

Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–2021 pp. 415-438

Alexander Caramento, Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo

Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines pp. 439-454

Sangwani Patrick Ng’ambi

Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975 pp. 455-475

Alexander Caramento

Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities pp. 477-499

Richard G. Saunders, Lyman Mlambo and Jesse Salah Ovadia

Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s pp. 501-524

Richard G. Saunders

Volume 49, issue 2, 2023

Editorial pp. 181-183

Mattia Fumanti

Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th–Century South Africa pp. 185-204

Denver A. Webb

‘If you belong to my generation and you never read James Hadley Chase, then you are not educated’: Everyday Reading of High School Students in Soweto, 1968–1976 pp. 205-224

Kasonde T. Mukonde

The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism pp. 225-246

Murendehle M. Juwayeyi, Lee A. Leonard and Happy E. Mwaungulu

African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi pp. 247-263

Anna Kapambwe Mwaba

David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations pp. 265-284

Mwayi Lusaka

Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History pp. 285-299

Norman Etherington

‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia pp. 301-322

Joshua Doble

Points of Entry into Zimbabwean Post-Independence Politics: Mugabe, the Military or the Social Subalterns pp. 323-328

Simukai Tinhu

Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa pp. 329-336

Mesrob Vartavarian

Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 336-338

Kealeboga J. Maphunye

Volume 49, issue 1, 2023

Editorial pp. 1-3

Justin Pearce

Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics pp. 5-24

Farai Mtero, Nkanyiso Gumede and Katlego Ramantsima

Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola pp. 25-47

Fernandes Wanda, Carlos Oya and Borja Monreal

ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018 pp. 49-66

Enock Ndawana and Mediel Hove

Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997 pp. 67-84

Paul Chiudza Banda

‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community pp. 85-103

Bastien Dratwa

Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement pp. 105-119

Owen Nyamwanza

Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland pp. 121-136

James Hlongwana and Elize S. van Eeden

Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe pp. 137-153

Melusi Nkomo and Lotti Nkomo

‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance pp. 155-168

James Musonda

Donal Lowry, 1959–2022 pp. 169-170

Saul Dubow

‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days pp. 171-174

Friday E. Mulenga

Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia pp. 175-176

Alastair Niven

Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism pp. 177-178

Mandisi Majavu

The personal–local as national history pp. 179-180

Kealeboga J. Maphunye