Journal of Southern African Studies

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Volume 48, issue 6, 2022

Editorial pp. 949-954

Mattia Fumanti

‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate pp. 955-973

Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa, Maitseo M.M. Bolaane and Boingotlo A. Moses

African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act pp. 975-991

Beaurel Visser

‘van die oorspronklike lippe’ (‘from the original lips’): The 19th-Century Cape Colony, Holographic Archaeology and the Historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s /xam–Afrikaans Collection pp. 993-1011

Luan Staphorst

Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid pp. 1013-1035

David Bunn, Bram Büscher, Melissa R. McHale, Mary L. Cadenasso, Daniel L. Childers, Steward T.A. Pickett, Louie Rivers and Louise Swemmer

Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape pp. 1037-1056

Phillan Zamchiya

Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020 pp. 1057-1076

Innocent Dande

Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review pp. 1077-1097

David Jeffery-Schwikkard

The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique pp. 1099-1117

Corrado Tornimbeni

Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi pp. 1119-1128

Danwood M. Chirwa

God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi pp. 1129-1132

Dorothy Tembo

Getting under the skin of Luanda pp. 1132-1133

Paul Jenkins

Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique pp. 1134-1135

Paolo Israel

Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe pp. 1135-1137

Brooks Marmon

Volume 48, issue 5, 2022

Editorial pp. 759-764

Colin Bundy

High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out pp. 765-785

Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa pp. 787-804

David Everatt and Marius Pieterse

Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia pp. 805-823

Fabian Krautwald

‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa pp. 825-842

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann and Rafael Verbuyst

The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts pp. 843-859

Lena Englund

China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia pp. 861-882

Hangwei Li, Dominik Kopiński and Ian Taylor

Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho pp. 883-900

Innocent Batsani-Ncube

Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980 pp. 901-919

Rudo Mudiwa

The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town pp. 921-937

Fernanda Pinto de Almeida

Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India pp. 939-940

Dilip M. Menon

From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation pp. 940-943

Daria Zelenova

Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both? pp. 943-944

Mesrob Vartavarian

The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe pp. 945-947

Lesley Hatipone Machiridza

Volume 48, issue 4, 2022

Editorial pp. 625-637

Peter Kneitz

On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off pp. 639-652

Markus Verne

Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo pp. 653-665

Marco Gardini

Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar pp. 667-684

Patrick Desplat

Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s pp. 685-707

Pier M. Larson

Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer? pp. 709-726

Gabriel A. Rantoandro*

Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy) pp. 727-745

Peter Kneitz

Obituary pp. 747-748

Gabriel A. Rantoandro

On the afterlives of colonialism pp. 749-750

Richard Ballard

The micropolitics of a bantustan pp. 750-752

Colin Bundy

Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid pp. 752-754

Wolfram Hartmann

Can a dissident be a citizen? pp. 754-756

Anne Hellum and Bill Derman

In the shadows of formal education pp. 756-758

Liu Ying and Daryl John

Volume 48, issue 3, 2022

Editorial pp. 431-435

Morris Szeftel

Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s pp. 437-452

Sean Maliehe

Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–1990 pp. 453-472

Mark Nyandoro

Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo pp. 473-488

Lisa Åkesson, Anette Hellman, Inês M. Raimundo and Cesaltina Matsinhe

Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia pp. 489-502

Andrew Heffernan

Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art pp. 503-525

Sindi-Leigh McBride

Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe pp. 527-544

Kuziwakwashe Zigomo

Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle pp. 545-561

Diane Evelyn Whitelaw

‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982 pp. 563-580

Lotti Nkomo

Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe pp. 581-603

William Beinart

Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War pp. 605-613

Alex Vines

Rereading the OvaHerero genocide pp. 615-616

Wolfram Hartmann

Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance pp. 617-619

Keyan G. Tomaselli

Class, work and whiteness pp. 620-621

Duncan Money

Contextualising family and subjectivities pp. 622-623

Timwa Lipenga

Volume 48, issue 2, 2022

Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction pp. 221-233

Martin Prowse and Helena Pérez Niño

Beyond the State? Organised Settler Tobacco Interests and the Consolidation of Southern Rhodesia’s Tobacco Industry in the Early Post-Second World War Years pp. 235-249

Sibanengi Ncube

Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation pp. 251-271

Toendepi Shonhe, Ian Scoones, Vine Mutyasira and Felix Murimbarimba

Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania pp. 273-291

Edward Bahati Makoye, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen and Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa

The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming pp. 293-315

Yumi Sakata, Pius Nyambara and Martin Prowse

Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe pp. 317-333

Freedom Mazwi

Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe pp. 335-354

Moses Moyo

Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi pp. 355-374

Martin Prowse

‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe pp. 375-391

Rory Pilossof and Sibanengi Ncube

Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems pp. 393-405

Ama Biney

The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa pp. 407-418

Sanja Nivesjö

Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape pp. 419-421

David Johnson

Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid pp. 421-423

Carli Coetzee

Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa pp. 423-425

Leonie Hoffmann

Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi pp. 425-427

Gift Wasambo Kayira

Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi pp. 427-428

Tanja D. Hendriks

Fathers in stories of the nation pp. 428-430

Leballo Tjemolane

Volume 48, issue 1, 2022

Editorial pp. 1-3

Rebekah Lee

Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities pp. 5-21

Veera V. Tagliabue

Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe pp. 23-41

Kristina Pikovskaia

Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa pp. 43-60

Erin Torkelson

Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964 pp. 61-80

Walima T. Kalusa

‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020) pp. 81-102

Julia Rensing

‘The League Will Not Ignore the Cry of the Negro Race for Justice’: Marcus Garvey, the League of Nations and South-West Africa pp. 103-117

Douglas R. Jones

‘Stealing Dingane’s Title’: The Fatal Significance of Saguate Gift-Giving in Zulu King Dingane’s Killing of Governor Ribeiro (1833) and Piet Retief (1838) pp. 119-138

Linell Chewins

Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army pp. 139-157

M.T. Howard

Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977 pp. 159-181

Maurice Hutton

More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000 pp. 183-200

Andrew Hartnack

The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old? pp. 201-202

Ricardo Reboredo

Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area pp. 203-204

Lerato Thakholi

The British Establishment and its radical periphery pp. 204-206

Edward Acton

Wars or revolutions? pp. 206-208

Vladimir Shubin

Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth pp. 208-210

David Morton

Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy pp. 210-212

Justin Pearce

Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically pp. 212-215

Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy pp. 215-219

Peter Limb