Journal of Southern African Studies

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Volume 47, issue 6, 2021

Editorial pp. 931-934

Jessica Johnson

The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi pp. 935-950

Ken Junior Lipenga

Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt pp. 951-972

Enid Guene

On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020 pp. 973-991

Nicholas Nyachega and Wesley Mwatwara

Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa pp. 993-1009

John Aerni-Flessner and Chitja Twala

Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa pp. 1011-1028

Simon Stevens

Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government pp. 1029-1043

Pedro Mzileni

Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s pp. 1045-1060

Gift Wasambo Kayira

Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s pp. 1061-1081

Sishuwa Sishuwa

A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church pp. 1083-1098

Lauren V. Jarvis

The ANC in the struggle and in power pp. 1099-1104

Bill Freund

Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution pp. 1104-1106

Alan Mabin

Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1106-1108

Katrien Pype

Competing dreams of freedom pp. 1108-1110

Colin Bundy

Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday pp. 1110-1112

Wendy Willems

On the voyage of rediscovery pp. 1112-1114

Tom Rice

In Solomon’s way pp. 1114-1117

Shaun Milton

Volume 47, issue 5, 2021

Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature pp. 735-744

Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander

Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone pp. 745-761

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging pp. 763-785

Jocelyn Alexander

‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms pp. 787-798

Ashleigh Harris

Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe pp. 799-815

Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi

Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs pp. 817-834

Astrid Rasch

Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings pp. 835-850

Maria Olaussen

Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis pp. 851-867

Oliver Nyambi

Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body pp. 869-888

Minna Johanna Niemi

Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe pp. 889-901

Lena Englund

Southern Africa: Is It Still a Thing? pp. 903-914

Norman Etherington

A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa pp. 915-916

Leslie Anne Hadfield

Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa pp. 917-919

Jules Skotnes-Brown

How polygamy became queer pp. 919-922

Meghan Healy-Clancy

Land, conservation and the San in Northern Namibia pp. 922-924

Akira Takada

Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg pp. 924-925

Karina Landman

Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga pp. 926-927

Wendy Urban-Mead

Emerging funeral culture in Swaziland in response to HIV/AIDS pp. 927-929

Akira Takada

Volume 47, issue 4, 2021

Editorial pp. 515-519

Rebekah Lee

In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique pp. 521-539

Julie Soleil Archambault

Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances pp. 541-565

Vanessa de Pacheco Melo and Paul Jenkins

A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017 pp. 567-586

Innocent Dande and Sandra Swart

Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976 pp. 587-603

Peter Brooke

Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–1974 pp. 605-625

Colin Darch and David Hedges

‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990 pp. 627-644

Michael Glover and Duncan Money

Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s pp. 645-662

Glen Ncube

Activism for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa: Tensions in the Framing of Labour Rights pp. 663-681

Kudakwashe Vanyoro

Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement pp. 683-702

Michael Aeby

The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin pp. 703-718

Thobekile Zikhali-Nyoni

Health in a fragile state pp. 719-721

Thomas Cousins

The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction pp. 723-726

M.T. Howard

Conservation, militarisation and apartheid in Caprivi pp. 727-730

Bernard C. Moore

Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People pp. 730-732

Antti Erkkilä

Response to the reviews of Ruling Nature, Controlling People pp. 732-734

Luregn Lenggenhager

Volume 47, issue 3, 2021

Editorial pp. 345-347

Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière

A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan pp. 349-367

Martin Plaut and Roland Oliphant

Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt pp. 369-385

James Musonda

Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique pp. 387-404

Justin Pearce

The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction pp. 405-416

Kate Ekama and Robert Ross

Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation pp. 417-435

Robert Ross and Lisa-Cheree Martin

Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony pp. 437-453

Kate Ekama

Banking on Family: What Was the Role of Family in the Establishment of Banks in 19th-Century South Africa? pp. 455-472

Christie Swanepoel and Aaron Graham

Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean pp. 473-487

Aaron Graham

Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism pp. 489-504

K.B. Wilson

The intertwined history of independence and development in Lesotho pp. 505-507

Emma Hunter

A history of border jumping between Zimbabwe and South Africa pp. 507-509

Henry Dee

The maturation of Kaokoveld environmental studies pp. 509-513

John Heydinger

Volume 47, issue 2, 2021

Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution pp. 155-172

Aninka Claassens and Catherine O’Regan

The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa pp. 173-190

Wilmien Wicomb

Traditional Authority in South Africa: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Eastern Cape pp. 191-208

Janine Ubink and Thiyane Duda

Chiefly Succession and Democracy in South Africa: Why History Matters pp. 209-227

Peter Delius

Finding Roles in Unseen Places: Government Action Conferring Roles on Traditional Authorities in South Africa pp. 229-250

Monica de Souza Louw

Towards Living Customary Administrative Law pp. 251-272

Michael Mbikiwa

Customary Marriage: Missteps Threaten the Constitutional Ideal of Common Citizenship pp. 273-289

Thandabantu Nhlapo

Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa pp. 291-308

Michael Bishop

‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive pp. 309-326

Derick A. Fay

Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law pp. 327-332

Geoff Budlender

Citizenship in Africa pp. 333-336

Jo Shaw

Citizenship, political participation and the state in Zambia pp. 336-338

Danielle Resnick

Pamela Reynolds’s field diary in the Zambezi valley pp. 338-340

Joshua Matanzima

Religion, same-sex desire and masculinity in South Africa pp. 340-342

Anthony Simpson

Radical teachers and Trotskyists in Cape Town pp. 342-344

Peter Limb

Volume 47, issue 1, 2020

Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History pp. 1-16

Bernard C. Moore, Stephanie Quinn, William Blakemore Lyon and Kai F. Herzog

Violence and Work: Convict Labour and Settler Colonialism in the Cape–Namibia Border Region (c.1855–1903) pp. 17-36

Kai F. Herzog

From Labour Elites to Garveyites: West African Migrant Labour in Namibia, 1892–1925 pp. 37-55

William Blakemore Lyon

Scalar Claims, Worker Strategies, and ‘South Africa’s Labour Empire’ in Namibia, 1943–1979 pp. 57-78

Stephanie Quinn

Continuity and Change in Gender Relations within the Contract Labour System in Kavango, Namibia, 1925–1972 pp. 79-92

Kletus Muhena Likuwa

Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933–1975 pp. 93-125

Bernard C. Moore

Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–1990 pp. 127-142

Saima Nakuti Ashipala

West Germany, East Germany and the path to Namibia’s independence pp. 143-145

Tilman Dedering

The National Union of Mines’ struggle for employment in Lesotho and South Africa pp. 145-147

Scott Rosenberg

A political history of housing and aspirations in Mozambique pp. 147-149

Paul Jenkins

Archiving settler colonialism pp. 149-151

David Kenrick

Promises of gender justice in matrilineal Malawi pp. 151-153

Christian Laheij