Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

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Volume 45, issue 6, 2019

Editorial: The Challenge of Rethinking Mandela pp. 997-1012

Colin Bundy

The Headman, the Regent and the ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ pp. 1013-1031

Philip Bonner

Mandela: The Untold Heritage pp. 1033-1050

Xolela Mangcu

Mandela and the Left pp. 1051-1071

Tom Lodge

The M-Plan: Mandela’s Struggle to Reorient the African National Congress pp. 1073-1091

Paul S. Landau

Mandela’s Army: Urban Revolt in South Africa, 1960–1964 pp. 1093-1110

Thula Simpson

News from Robben Island: Journalists’ Visits to Nelson Mandela during his Imprisonment pp. 1111-1130

Martha Evans

Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa’s Transformative Constitution pp. 1131-1149

Timothy Gibbs

The Impossible Contract: The Political and Private Marriage of Nelson and Winnie Mandela pp. 1151-1171

Shireen Hassim

Mandela and Beyond: Thinking New Possibility in the 21st Century pp. 1173-1181

Elleke Boehmer

Cloak and Dagger pp. 1183-1186

Laura Major

Statecraft, citizenship and the middle class in Mozambique pp. 1186-1188

Peter Lockwood

The civil war in Mozambique pp. 1188-1189

Ben Jones

Reading Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa in contemporary South Africa pp. 1190-1192

Karen Haire

Volume 45, issue 5, 2019

Editorial pp. 799-803

George Karekwaivanane

State–Diamond-Sector Relations in Angola, 1912–2002 pp. 805-820

Mathias Alencastro

‘From Cabinda to Cunene’: Monuments and the Construction of Angolan Nationalism since 1975 pp. 821-840

Jeremy Ball

The DRC–Angola Offshore Oil Dispute: How Regime (In)Security Outweighs Sovereign Claims pp. 841-857

Patrick Edmond, Kristof Titeca and Erik Kennes

‘Aliens’ on the Copperbelt: Zambianisation, Nationalism and Non-Zambian Africans in the Mining Industry pp. 859-875

Duncan Money

Turning Points on the Periphery? The Politics of South Africa’s Platinum-Belt Strike Wave in Rustenburg, Northwest and Northam, Limpopo, 2012–2014 pp. 877-894

Luke Sinwell

Mzabalazo On the Move: Organising on a South African Commuter Train pp. 895-909

Mpho Mmadi

‘Dairying Is a White Man’s Industry’: The Dairy Produce Act and the Segregation Debate in Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1920–1937 pp. 911-925

Godfrey Hove and Sandra Swart

Ambiguous Bonds: Relationships between Farm Workers and Land Beneficiaries after Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Programme pp. 927-944

Leila Sinclair-Bright

Intrusion into Rural Tribal Space in Botswana: The Case of the Trans-Kalahari Motor Race, 1975–1981 pp. 945-961

Christian John Makgala

The Izichwe Football Club: Youth, Sport and Masculinity in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa pp. 963-980

Peter Alegi and Liz Timbs

The Mnangagwa Era? Periodisation and Politics in Zimbabwe pp. 981-992

Dan Hodgkinson

Epistemology, freedom and decolonisation pp. 993-995

Ama Biney

African Estate Records in Colonial Namibia pp. 995-996

Shadrack Katuu

Volume 45, issue 4, 2019

Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space – Introduction pp. 627-639

Cherryl Walker, Davide Chinigò and Saul Dubow

Cosmopolitan Karoo: Land, Space and Place in the Shadow of the Square Kilometre Array pp. 641-662

Cherryl Walker

200 Years of Astronomy in South Africa: From the Royal Observatory to the ‘Big Bang’ of the Square Kilometre Array pp. 663-687

Saul Dubow

When Stars Collide: Competing Development Paradigms in the Central Karoo pp. 689-709

Doreen Atkinson

The Square Kilometre Array and Local Development Mandates in the Karoo pp. 711-728

Michael Gastrow and Thelma Oppelt

Elusive Identities: Karoo |Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array pp. 729-747

John Parkington, David Morris and José M. de Prada-Samper

From the ‘Merino Revolution’ to the ‘Astronomy Revolution’: Land Alienation and Identity in Carnarvon, South Africa pp. 749-766

Davide Chinigò

Impossible Images: Radio Astronomy, the Square Kilometre Array and the Art of Seeing pp. 767-790

Hedley Twidle

The hidden histories of marginalisation, race and land dispossession in the Northern Cape pp. 791-792

Tilman Dedering

Women, migration and the cashew economy in late colonial Mozambique 1945–1975 pp. 793-794

Epifãnia Albino Langa

The work of representing the exiled revolutionaries pp. 794-796

Paul Landau

Intimacies of sound pp. 796-798

Jane Carruthers

Volume 45, issue 3, 2019

Editorial pp. 459-464

Diana Jeater

Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary: The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1934–1995 pp. 465-483

Trishula Patel

From Dreams of Dominion to Aspirations for a New Africa: Ahrn Palley’s Political Re-invention in Southern Rhodesia, 1959–1961 pp. 485-501

Brooks Marmon

‘A White Man Will Never Be a Zambian’: Racialised Nationalism, the Rule of Law, and Competing Visions of Independent Zambia in the Case of Justice James Skinner, 1964–1969 pp. 503-523

Sishuwa Sishuwa

‘Scottish Exceptionalism?’ Trade Unions and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1976–1994 pp. 525-542

Christopher Fevre

Visions of China: Political Friendship and Animosities in Southern African Science Fiction pp. 543-557

Nedine Moonsamy

Safe to Violate: The Role of Gender in the Necklacing of Women During the South African People’s War (1985–1990) pp. 559-574

Nyasha Karimakwenda

Transitional Politics and Machinery of Government Change in South Africa pp. 575-595

Vinothan Naidoo

A ‘Homeland’s’ Harvest: Biotraffic and Biotrade in the Contemporary Ciskei Region of South Africa pp. 597-616

Christopher Morris

Law and the struggle for political power in Zimbabwe pp. 617-619

Sibanengi Ncube

Coping with existence in the ‘New Angola’ pp. 619-621

Rebecca Engebretsen

Institutions matter: politics, democracy and development in Africa pp. 621-623

Ian Taylor

Pitfalls of the developmental state: the fate of the Sudanese economic model pp. 623-626

Tinashe Nyamunda

Volume 45, issue 2, 2019

Editorial pp. 251-252

Andrew Brooks

Nature, Conservation and Conflict in Eastern Zimbabwe: Chirinda Forest, 1980–2000 pp. 253-271

Noel Ndumeya

Designing KwaThema: Cultural Inscriptions in the Model Township pp. 273-301

Hannah le Roux

Recruitment and Re-Memory: S.E.K. Mqhayi’s ‘Umkosi Wemidaka: The Dark-Skinned Army’ (1916) and Fred Khumalo’s Dancing the Death Drill (2017) pp. 303-321

Neville Smith

‘Now Is the Time!’ The Importance of International Spaces for Women’s Activism within the ANC, 1960–1976 pp. 323-340

Emma Elinor Lundin

Belonging, Indigeneity, Land and Nature in Southern Africa under Neoliberal Capitalism: An Overview pp. 341-355

Stasja Koot, Robert Hitchcock and Catie Gressier

Giving Land (Back)? The Meaning of Land in the Indigenous Politics of the South Kalahari Bushmen Land Claim, South Africa pp. 357-374

Stasja Koot and Bram Büscher

Immaterial Indigenous Modernities in the Struggle against Illegal Fencing in the N≠a Jaqna Conservancy, Namibia: Genealogical Ancestry and ‘San-ness’ in a ‘Traditional Community’ pp. 375-392

Christa van der Wulp and Stasja Koot

Fatalism and Dissidence in Dukuduku, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Ongoing Contestations Over Land, Resources and Identities pp. 393-411

Elizabeth Aardenburg and Adrian Nel

Ekhayeni: Rural–Urban Migration, Belonging and Landscapes of Home in South Africa pp. 413-431

Avela Njwambe, Michelle Cocks and Susanne Vetter

Interpretations of San Ethnicity and Identity in Namibia: Two Ethnographic Accounts pp. 433-449

Jennifer Hays

The Life and Time of Monica Wilson pp. 451-453

Isak Niehaus

Heritage, Race and the Political Economies of Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 453-455

Blair Rutherford

Christianity, Industrial Education and The Black Atlantic pp. 455-457

Robert Trent Vinson

Volume 45, issue 1, 2019

Editorial pp. 1-4

Jessica Johnson

‘Day Zero’, Hydraulic Citizenship and the Defence of the Commons in Cape Town: A Case Study of the Politics of Water and its Infrastructures (2017–2018) pp. 5-29

Steven Robins

Service and Solidarity: Domestic Workers, Informal Organising and the Limits of Unionisation in Zambia pp. 31-47

Sacha Hepburn

Chinese Immigrants and Underground Lotteries in South Africa: Negotiating Spaces at the Cusp of a Racial–Capitalist Order pp. 49-68

Stephen Louw

‘Arming Black Consciousness’: The Formation of the Bokwe Group/Azanian Peoples’ Liberation Front, April 1972–September 1976 pp. 69-88

Toivo Asheeke

The ‘Partnership’ Hoax: How the British Government Deprived Central Africans of their Rights pp. 89-110

Robert I. Rotberg

HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Gender, Art and Activism – Introduction pp. 111-112

Annie E. Coombes and Hilary Sapire

Art, Activism and the Academy: Productive Tensions and the Next Generation of HIV/AIDS Research in South Africa pp. 113-119

Rebekah Lee

Removed from Context and Complexity: Women in Early AIDS Research in the South African Medical Journal, 1980–1995 pp. 121-141

Carla Tsampiras

Positive Living: Visual Activism and Art in HIV/AIDS Rights Campaigns pp. 143-174

Annie E. Coombes

Art, Vulnerability and HIV in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 175-195

Elizabeth Mills

Seeing Through Dreams: On the Efficacy of Antiretroviral Drugs in the South African Lowveld pp. 197-213

Isak Niehaus

South African AIDS Activism, Art and Academia: A Memoir from the 2000s pp. 215-227

Nicoli Nattrass

‘Insurgent Democracy’: Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Freedom Fighters pp. 229-245

Trevor Ngwane

Migration, livelihood and political consciousness on Durban’s docks pp. 247-249

Jason Hickel