Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

Current editor(s): Ralph Smith

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Volume 25, issue 3, 1999

Missions, Respectability and Civil Rights: the Cape Colony, 1828–1854 pp. 333-345

Robert Ross

Environment, Production and Social Difference in the Kalahari Thornveld, c1750–1830 pp. 347-373

Nancy J. Jacobs

The Millennium Comes to Mapumulo: Popular Christianity in Rural Natal, 1866–1906 pp. 375-391

Michael Mahoney

Men with Cookers: Transformations in Migrant Culture, Domesticity and Identity in Duncan Village, East London pp. 393-416

Leslie Bank

Violence, Exile and Ethnicity: Nyemba Refugees in Kaisosi and Kehemu (Rundu, Nambia) pp. 418-439

Inge Brinkman

Outcomes of Social and Environmental Change in the Kalahari of Botswana: the Role of Migration pp. 441-459

Deborah Sporton, David S.G. Thomas and Jean Morrison

The Politics of Mythology: the Genealogy of the Philip Myth pp. 461-477

Andrew Bank

The Politics of Territory and Place in Post-apartheid South Africa: the Disputed Area of Bushbuckridge pp. 479-498

Maano F. Ramutsindela and David Simon

Truth and Reconciliation: the Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History pp. 499-519

Aletta Norval

Book Reviews pp. 521-526

Tom Lodge, Christopher Saunders, Hugh Brogan and James Campbell

Volume 24, issue 2, 1998

The historical significance of South Africa's third force pp. 261-299

Stephen Ellis

tsotsis’ pp. 301-323

Clive Glaser

citizen pp. 325-345

Adam Jones

A threat to the nation and a threat to the men: the banning of Depo‐Provera in Zimbabwe, 1981 pp. 347-376

Amy Kaler

Clear waters and muddied histories: environmental history and the politics of community in Zimbabwe's Eastern highlands pp. 377-403

Donald Moore

Dilemmas of development: burley tobacco, the environment and economic growth in Malawi pp. 405-424

Richard Tobin and Walter Knausenberger

Taking stock in the Kalahari: accumulation and resistance on the Southern African periphery pp. 425-441

Jacqueline Solway

Myth and reality in the struggle against apartheid pp. 443-458

Martin Legassick

Book reviews pp. 459-473

David Maxwell, Hugh Brogan, John Darwin, Maryna Fraser, Muhammed Haron, Loren Kruger, Cathy Skidmore‐Hess, Simon Adams and Jeremy Krikler

Volume 23, issue 4, 1997

Artfulness in the early South African oral‐style story: Ernest Glanville's ‘Abe Pike’ tales pp. 541-552

Craig Mackenzie

Carnival and hybridity in texts by Dambudzo Marechera and Lesego Rampolokeng pp. 553-564

Flora Veit‐Wild

The drama of country and city: tribalization, urbanization and theatre under apartheid pp. 565-584

Loren Kruger

Namibian‐De Beers state‐firm relations: cooperation and conflict pp. 585-613

Daniel Kempton and Roni Du Preez

Landscapes, fields and soils: understanding the history of soil fertility management in Southern Zimbabwe pp. 615-634

Ian Scoones

The margins of order: strategies of segregation on the eastern Cape frontier, 1806‐c. 1850 pp. 635-653

Alan Lester

The return of Bessie head pp. 655-664

Jane Starfield

Book reviews pp. 665-682

Marja Spierenburg, David Simon, Nick James, Ian Linden, Terence Ranger, Norma Kriger, T. Kai Easton, Helen Richman, Anthony O'Brien, Hermann Wittenberg and Ashley Jackson

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Volume 23, issue 3, 1997

Men, migration, and households in Botswana: an exploration of connections over time and space pp. 405-420

Nicholas Townsend

‘Veni, VD, Vici'?: Reassessing the Ila syphilis epidemic pp. 421-440

Bryan Callahan

The environmental challenge to the nation‐state: superparks and national parks policy in Zimbabwe pp. 441-451

Rosaleen Duffy

Integrating fighters after war: reflections on the Namibian experience, 1989–1993 pp. 453-472

Rosemary Preston

Tribal recreation and recreating tribalism: culture, leisure and social control on South Africa's gold mines, 1940–1950 pp. 473-489

Cecile Badenhorst and Charles Mather

Segregation, science and commissions of enquiry: the contestation over native education policy in South Africa, 1930–36 pp. 491-506

Sue Krige

Old scars, old bones, and old secrets: three recent South African novels pp. 507-514

David Medalie

Book reviews pp. 515-533

Helen Kapstein, Paul Rich, Jane Starfield, Susie Jacobs, I. N. Mazonde, David Moore, John Minnis, Richard Wilson, René Pélissier, Alex Vines and David Birmingham

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Volume 23, issue 1, 1997

South Africa and the limits of civil society pp. 5-25

Daryl Glaser

‘For the sake of the race’: eugenic discourses of feeblemindedness and motherhood in the South African medical record, 1903–1926 pp. 27-50

Susanne Klausen

The South African council on sport and the political antinomies of the sports boycott pp. 51-66

Douglas Booth

Regional integration in post‐apartheid Southern Africa: the case of renegotiating the Southern African customs union pp. 67-86

Richard Gibb

Guta re Jehova pp. 87-105

Timothy Scarnecchia

Another side to rural Zimbabwe: social constructs and the administration of farm workers in Urungwe district, 1940s pp. 107-126

Blair Rutherford

Forced labour in the Pilanesberg: the flogging of Chief Kgamanyane by Commandant Paul Kruger, Saulspoort, April 1870 pp. 127-140

Bernard Mbenga

New perspectives on the history of African Christianity pp. 141-148

David Maxwell

Book reviews pp. 149-162

David Marriott, Wazha Morapedi, Tshidiso Maloka, Rene Pelissier, Isabel Balseiro, Saul Dubow, Nancy Clark, Jonathan Klaaren and Preben Kaarsholm

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Volume 22, issue 4, 1996

Mandela's lost province: the African national congress and the Western Cape electorate in the 1994 South African elections pp. 517-540

Matt Eldridge and Jeremy Seekings

Desperately seeking ‘the Merina’ (Central Madagascar): reading ethnonyms and their semantic fields in African identity histories pp. 541-560

Pier Larson

Arenas for control, terrains of gender contestation: guerrilla struggle and counter‐insurgency warfare in Zimbabwe 1972–1980 pp. 561-584

Mike Kesby

Intergenerational family care: legacy of the past, implications for the future pp. 585-598

Sandra Burman

The political context of Botswana's development performance pp. 599-616

Balefi Tsie

‘Tough guy, eh?’: The gangster‐figure in Drum pp. 617-632

Mac Fenwick

Changes in the racial division of labour during the apartheid era pp. 633-656

Owen Crankshaw

Amazing travellers, strange countries pp. 657-670

René Pélissier

Book reviews pp. 671-695

George Fredrickson, Crain Soudien, Kate Crehan, Peter Alexander, Shula Marks, Peter Coates, Anthony Kirk‐Greene, Stephen Chan, M. C. Musambachime, Brian Raftopoulos, Terence Ranger, M. Pitcher, Lyn Schumaker and Alan Barnard

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Volume 22, issue 3, 1996

Women, violence and the Rand revolt of 1922 pp. 349-372

Jeremy Krikler

Problems of explanation in the study of Afrikaner nationalism: a case study of the West Rand pp. 373-385

Jonathan Hyslop

Of ‘native skulls’ and ‘noble caucasians’: phrenology in colonial South Africa pp. 387-403

Andrew Bank

Similar but different? Assessing the reserve economy legacy of Namibia pp. 405-420

Donna Pankhurst

Drought and survival in rural Namibia pp. 421-440

Stephen Devereux and Trine Næraa

the Black Peril pp. 441-453

Gareth Cornwell

Dissecting the Kruger myth with blunt instruments: a rebuttal of Jane Carruthers's view pp. 455-472

Hennie Grobler

Defending Kruger's honour? A reply to professor Hennie Grobler pp. 473-480

Jane Carruthers

War and peace in Angola and Mozambique pp. 481-490

Christopher Cramer

Book reviews pp. 491-505

Terence Ranger, Lance Sittert, Preben Kaarsholm, Deborah Gaitskell, Carl Hallencreutz, Alex Waal, Heribert Weiland, Robert Holland and Ashley Jackson

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Volume 22, issue 2, 1996

Citizenship in neo‐patrilineal states: gender and mobility in Southern Africa pp. 189-200

A. P. Cheater and R. B. Gaidzanwa

Recent trends in the historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa pp. 201-219

Norman Etherington

Power politics in the New South Africa pp. 221-233

Michael Macdonald

The new tribalism: hostels and violence pp. 235-248

Ari Sitas

Sorcery and sovereignty: taxation, witchcraft, and political symbols in the 1880 Transkeian rebellion pp. 249-270

Sean Redding

‘The things they have made will live forever’: the Estelle Hamilton‐Welsh collection in the F.S. Malan museum, university of Fort Hare pp. 271-285

Sean Morrow

Racial segregation and medical discourse in nineteenth‐century Cape Town pp. 287-308

Harriet Deacon

More thoughts on the historiography of transition on the Zambian Copperbelt pp. 309-312

Hugh Macmillan

Urban trends on the Zambian copperbelt: a short bibliographic note pp. 313-313

James Ferguson

Pilgrimages in Central‐Southern Lusophone Africa pp. 315-325

René Pélissier and João Cravinho

The future of the South African past pp. 325-331

Ran Greenstein

Book reviews pp. 332-338

Saul Dubow, Tom Lodge, Anthony King, Ninon Roets and Mwizenge Tembo

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