Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ralph Smith

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Volume 51, issue 6, 2025

Liberation Armies’ Imagined Futures in Southern Africa pp. 747-757

Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Justin Pearce

From the Soviet Komsomol to the Battlefields of Mozambican Liberation: Transnational Ideas and the Question of the Frelimo Youth League, 1963–1969 pp. 759-776

Johanna M. Wetzel

Youth Dreams, State Repression and Military Mobility: Tracing the Origins of ZAPU’s Liberation Army pp. 777-800

Jocelyn Alexander

Accounting for ZANU’s Ghana-Trained Insurgents in Rhodesia, 1964–1979 pp. 801-823

Gerald Chikozho Mazarire

Reading is the Weapon: Books and the Making of MK as a Political Army pp. 825-851

Arianna Lissoni

‘You have to know why you breathe’: Women’s Intellectual Work in the Southern African Liberation Struggle Women’s Sections pp. 853-871

Nomzamo Portia Ntombela

Liberation Armies, Women Soldiers and Martial Masculinity: Gender and Training in the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) pp. 873-898

JoAnn McGregor, Jocelyn Alexander and Methembe Hillary Hadebe

Liberation Movements and Battlefield Solidarity: Frelimo and ZANU Soldiers Fighting Side by Side in Rhodesia pp. 899-917

Clinarete Munguambe

‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the War against UNITA pp. 919-939

Justin Pearce

Correction pp. 941-941

The Editors

Volume 51, issue 5, 2025

Editorial pp. 597-600

David Everatt

A Whole New Ball Game: The Historiography of Sport in South Africa pp. 601-623

Colin Bundy

Replacing Customs Revenue with Taxes on Income and Domestic Consumption: The South African Experience pp. 625-642

Andreas Freytag and Krige Siebrits

Elite Contestation in South Africa, 2006–2018: The Making and Unmaking of a Power Elite pp. 643-660

Ivor Chipkin and Jelena Vidojević

The ‘Reckless’ White Father: The Violent Deaths of Farmworkers in South Africa and their Saliences pp. 661-681

uMbuso weNkosi and Daniella Rafaely

Dangerous Relations: Everyday Storytelling and the Dilemmas of Moral Discernment in Rural Zambia pp. 683-699

James Wintrup

Beaches, Hotels and ‘LM Prawns’: Tourist Circulation and the Politics of Race in Settler Colonial Mozambique (c.1952–1975) pp. 701-718

Caio Simões de Araújo

Intellectuals, Revolution and Literature in Nationalist Armed Struggle in Angola and Mozambique, 1961–1974 pp. 719-738

Tom Stennett

Luanda: the many facets of an African city undergoing transformation pp. 739-741

Gilson Lázaro

Vigilante democracy: popular justice in contemporary South Africa pp. 741-743

Mesrob Vartavarian

The South African state and the regulation and management of mining waste pp. 743-745

Leah Burch

Volume 51, issue 4, 2025

Editorial pp. 453-454

Justin Pearce

The Social Impact of Climate Change in Southern Africa: Introduction pp. 455-465

Jörn Ahrens, Matthias Rompel and David Simon

Adaptation Options for Climate Change in Botswana: An Overview pp. 467-482

Gabriel Faimau and Lebogang Basimane

The Role of Transdisciplinary Formats in the Awareness Creation of (Social) Climate Change Impacts: A Namibian Perspective pp. 483-504

Sara Lüttich and Janek Riedel

The People and Climate Change: How Experts and Communities Disagree on Climate Change Impact in South Africa and Botswana pp. 505-521

Jörn Ahrens

The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique pp. 523-540

Sarita Monjane Henriksen

The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis? pp. 541-562

Ikechukwu Umejesi and Priviledge Cheteni

Making the Best of a Setback: The Fuel Conservation Programme of the Vorster Government in the 1970s pp. 563-582

Kobus du Pisani

Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania pp. 583-596

Caroline M. Mburu

Volume 51, issue 3, 2025

Editorial pp. 305-307

Dennis Walder

Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History pp. 309-329

Martin Büdel

The Causes and Impact of Famo Music Gang Violence in Lesotho pp. 331-347

Tlohang Letsie and Khabele Matlosa

Campus Radio in the Capital City: A Brief History of Radio Tuks (c.1976 to 1996) pp. 349-368

Jimmy Pieterse

Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia pp. 369-384

Julia Pauli

Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s pp. 385-405

Robert Morrell

‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834 pp. 407-425

Benjamin Crous

From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined pp. 427-448

Elizabeth Soer

Editorial practice and the presentation of Nambian genocide history pp. 449-451

Wolfram Hartmann

The human impact on big game in Botswana pp. 451-452

Martial Fanga Agbor

Volume 51, issue 2, 2025

Editorial pp. 145-147

Alex Beresford

‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938 pp. 149-174

Michael Eastman and Harvey M. Feinberg

Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–1964 pp. 175-198

Martin L. Boston

The Ethnic Distribution of the Enslaved Population of Southern Mozambique following the Mfecane: An Analysis of the Registers of Slaves and Libertos of Lourenço Marques (Delagoa Bay), 1856–1874 pp. 199-213

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa pp. 215-234

Sikhumbuzo Dube

Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–2021 pp. 235-255

Owen Crankshaw

Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian pp. 257-273

Marek Pawlicki

The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle pp. 275-304

Helen C. John and Petrus A. Mbenzi

Volume 51, issue 1, 2025

Editorial pp. 1-5

Mattia Fumanti

‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa pp. 7-24

Siphe Zantsi and Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba

Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa pp. 25-44

Christopher Cramer and John Sender

Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–2024 pp. 45-58

James Musonda

‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township pp. 59-73

Siyathokoza Mtolo and Mbalenhle Mtolo

Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–1989 pp. 75-92

Liam James Kingsley

Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–1970 pp. 93-111

Matteo Grilli

Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa pp. 113-136

Richard Levi Raber

Understanding post-apartheid indebtedness: an ethnography of money and social aspiration in South Africa pp. 137-139

Isaac Owusu Nsiah

Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique pp. 139-141

Justin Pearce

Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state pp. 141-143

Mesrob Vartavarian