Journal of Southern African Studies

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Volume 39, issue 4, 2013

Introduction: Politics, Patronage and Violence in Zimbabwe pp. 749-763

Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor

‘Rebels’ and ‘Good Boys’: Patronage, Intimidation and Resistance in Zimbabwe's Attorney General's Office after 2000 pp. 765-782

Susanne Verheul

Surveillance and the City: Patronage, Power-Sharing and the Politics of Urban Control in Zimbabwe pp. 783-805

JoAnn McGregor

Militarisation and State Institutions: ‘Professionals’ and ‘Soldiers’ inside the Zimbabwe Prison Service pp. 807-828

Jocelyn Alexander

Ideology, Civilian Authority and the Zimbabwean Military pp. 829-843

Blessing-Miles Tendi

Electoral Politics and a Farm Workers' Struggle in Zimbabwe (1999–2000) pp. 845-862

Blair Rutherford

The ‘Hardcore’ Student Activist: The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU), State Violence, and Frustrated Masculinity, 2000–2008 pp. 863-883

Dan Hodgkinson

Ndira's Wake: Politics, Memory and Mobility among the Youth of Mabvuku-Tafara, Harare pp. 885-901

Sam Wilkins

Testing Ties: Opposition and Power-Sharing Negotiations in Zimbabwe pp. 903-920

Thys Hoekman

The Political Economy of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Central Zimbabwe pp. 921-936

Showers Mawowa

The Role of Politics and State Practices in Shaping Rural Differentiation: A Study of Resettled Small-Scale Farmers in South-Eastern Zimbabwe pp. 937-953

Phillan Zamchiya

The MDC-T's (Un)Seeing Eye in Zimbabwe's 2013 Harmonised Elections: A Technical Knockout pp. 955-962

Phillan Zamchiya

Robert Mugabe's 2013 Presidential Election Campaign pp. 963-970

Blessing-Miles Tendi

The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe: The End of an Era pp. 971-988

Brian Raftopoulos

The Heterogeneous State and Legal Pluralism in Mozambique pp. 989-995

Helene Maria Kyed

Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa pp. 997-999

Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock

Democratic Deficit in the Parliament of Botswana pp. 999-1000

Christian John Makgala

The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and Its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies pp. 1000-1002

Neil Parsons

Prickly Pear: The Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape pp. 1002-1003

Brett M. Bennett

Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet & Abolitionist pp. 1004-1005

C.J. Driver

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 39, issue 3, 2013

Editorial pp. 491-496

Lyn Schumaker

Working through a Paradox about Sexual Culture in South Africa: Tough Sex in the Twenty-First Century pp. 497-509

Jonny Steinberg

‘Respectable Women’ versus ‘Small Houses’: Feminist Negotiations of Sexual Morality, Marriage and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe pp. 511-526

Lene Christiansen

The Medical History of Abortion in South Africa, c pp. 527-542

Rebecca Hodes

Medicine, Politics and Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines pp. 543-556

Jock McCulloch

Cross-Border Lives, Warfare and Rape in Independence-Era Botswana pp. 557-576

Maitseo Bolaane

The Dilemma of Anti-Xenophobia Discourse in the Aftermath of Violence in De Doorns pp. 577-596

Philippa Kerr and Kevin Durrheim

The King, the Missionary and the Missionary's Daughter pp. 597-614

Peter Delius and Kirsten Rüther

Introduction – South Africa on Film pp. 615-621

Hilary Sapire

‘Cinematographic Calamity’ or ‘Soul-Stirring Appeal to Every Briton’: in England and South Africa, 1915–1931 pp. 623-640

Brian Willan

Nation-Building Movies Made in South Africa (1916–18): I.W. Schlesinger, Harold Shaw, and the Lingering Ambiguities of South African Union pp. 641-659

Neil Parsons

: The Life and Times of the South African Newsreel from 1910 to 1948 pp. 661-680

Emma Sandon

Cinematic Cities: A ‘Film and History’ Overview for South Africa's Major Metropolises from the 1890s to the 1950s pp. 681-699

Vivian Bickford-Smith

‘Assignment Africa’: Donald Swanson's Colonial Imaginary and (1949) pp. 701-719

Jacqueline Maingard

All Tickets Please, or How Cinema Histories of South Africa Can Stop Re-Enacting the Racialised Past pp. 721-726

Carli Coetzee

Fears and Desires in South African Crime Fiction pp. 727-738

Sam Naidu

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic pp. 739-740

Karen Barnes

Apartheid Turning Points: Ending Apartheid pp. 740-742

Joanne Davies

The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writing; Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century pp. 742-745

Brendon Nicholls

State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature pp. 745-747

M.J. Daymond

The History of Dispossession at Orania and the Politics of Land Restitution in South Africa pp. 748-748

Edward Cavanagh

Volume 39, issue 2, 2013

Editorial pp. 241-249

Joost Fontein

Colonial Conquest and the Tambookie Frontier: The Story of Maphasa,.1830–1853 pp. 251-270

Anne Mager

The Returns of the King: The Case of Mphephu and Western Venda, 1899–1904 pp. 271-291

Lindsay Braun

The Dawning of Angola's Citizenship Revolution: A Quest for Inclusionary Politics pp. 293-311

Paulo Faria

Politics of Memory, Decentralisation and Recentralisation in Mozambique pp. 313-335

Victor Igreja

An Independent Caprivi: A Madness of the Few, a Partial Collective Yearning or a Realistic Possibility? Citizen Perspectives on Caprivian Secession pp. 337-352

Ester Massó Guijarro

Land and Colonialism in Mozambique–Policies and Practice in Inhambane,.1900–.1940 pp. 353-369

Bárbara Direito

‘The Time of the United Nations in South West Africa is Near’: Local Drama and Global Politics in Apartheid-Era Hereroland pp. 371-389

Molly McCullers

The History of Dispossession at Orania and the Politics of Land Restitution in South Africa pp. 391-407

Edward Cavanagh

Mining and ‘Traditional Communities’ in South Africa's ‘Platinum Belt’: Contestations over Land, Leadership and Assets in North-West Province.1996–2012 pp. 409-423

Andrew Manson

Solomon Plaatje's Decade of Creative Mobility, 1912–1922: The Politics of Travel and Writing in and beyond South Africa pp. 425-446

Janet Remmington

Students, Apartheid and the Ecumenical Movement in South Africa, 1960–1975 pp. 447-463

Ian Macqueen

Why the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland Failed: Lessons from the Brief History of a Regional University in Southern Africa pp. 465-480

Brian Mokopakgosi

At Home in the World in Postcolonial Lusaka pp. 481-484

Ranka Primorac

Who Rules South Africa? pp. 485-486

Adrian Guelke

African Naturalist: The Life and Times of Rodney Carrington Wood 1889–1962 pp. 486-487

Tanja Hammel

Making African Christianity: Africans Reimagining Their Faith in Colonial South Africa pp. 487-489

Joel Cabrita

Volume 39, issue 1, 2013

Editorial pp. 1-4

Donal Lowry

Editorial pp. 5-6

David Simon and Morris Szeftel

Untangling the Lion's Tale: Violent Masculinity and the Ethics of Biography in the ‘Curious’ Case of the Apartheid-Era Policeman Donald Card pp. 7-30

Leslie Bank and Andrew Bank

Reply to the Article by Leslie and Andrew Bank pp. 31-43

Donald Card

Discourses of Poor Work Ethic in Botswana: A Historical Perspective, 1930–2010 pp. 45-57

Christian Makgala

Gender and the Chief Justice: Principle or Pretext? pp. 59-76

Elsje Bonthuys

From May 2008 to 2011: Xenophobic Violence and National Subjectivity in South Africa pp. 77-97

Judith Hayem

Buying Loyalty: Zimbabwe's Marange Diamonds pp. 99-117

David Towriss

To Disclose or Not to Disclose, That is the Question! Antiretroviral Therapy, Access to Resources and Stigma in Southern Africa pp. 119-133

Emily Frank and Alexander Rödlach

‘And so they moved one by one’: Forced Removals in a Free State Town (1956–1977) pp. 135-150

Isabella Kentridge

Transmission and Change in South African Motherhood: Black Mothers in Three-Generational Cape Town Families pp. 151-170

Elena Moore

Re-Thinking the Emergence of the Struggle for South African Liberation in the United States: Max Yergan and the Council on African Affairs, 1922–1946 pp. 171-192

Charles Johnson

The Virtual Memory Landscape: The Impact of Information Technology on Collective Memory and Commemoration in Southern Africa pp. 193-205

Sabine Marschall

‘They Became Afraid When They Saw Us’: MK Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Bantustan of Transkei, 1988–1994 pp. 207-225

Daniel Douek

The Battle against HIV/AIDS pp. 227-234

Jenny Doubt

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Farmers' Voices From Zimbabwe pp. 235-236

Kate Law

Remembering John Marshall and Bitter Roots: The Ends of a Kalahari Myth pp. 237-238

Jason Robinson

Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities pp. 238-239

Harri Englund