Journal of Southern African Studies

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Volume 42, issue 6, 2016

Contested Terrain: Identity and Women’s Suffrage in Mauritius pp. i-i

Ramola Ramtohul

Editorial pp. 1027-1031

Dennis Walder

Gordimer’s Pathologies pp. 1033-1044

Stephen Clingman

Then and Now: Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012) pp. 1045-1057

Ileana Dimitriu

Prison and Political Struggle in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter pp. 1059-1076

Sorcha Gunne

The Late Nadine Gordimer pp. 1077-1094

Graham K. Riach

The Idea of Reading in Early 20th-Century South Africa pp. 1095-1108

Corinne Sandwith

Making and Unmaking ‘African Foreignness’: African Settings, African Migrants and the Migrant Detective in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction pp. 1109-1124

Rebecca Fasselt

Perceptions of Daisy de Melker: Representations of a Sensational Trial pp. 1125-1142

Bridget Grogan

‘The Day that Fell Off the Calendar’: 16 June, South African Newspapers, and the Making of a National Holiday, 1977–1996 pp. 1143-1160

Rachel E. Johnson

‘Hidrunisa Samora’: Invocations of a Dead Political Leader in Maputo Rap pp. 1161-1177

Janne Rantala

Dangerous AIDS Myths or Preconceived Perceptions? A Critical Study of the Meaning and Impact of Myths about HIV/AIDS in South Africa pp. 1179-1191

Jonas Sivelä

Falling through the Cracks of South Africa’s Liberation: Comrades’ Counter-Memories of Squatter Resistance in the 1980s pp. 1193-1206

Kim Wale

Icons of the Old Regime: Challenging South African Public Memory Strategies in #RhodesMustFall pp. 1207-1223

Carolyn E. Holmes and Melanie Loehwing

Contested Terrain: Identity and Women’s Suffrage in Mauritius pp. 1225-1239

Ramola Ramtohul

Political Histories of Southern Africa’s Kingdoms and Chiefdoms pp. 1241-1246

John Wright

‘Everything is Foreign and Strange’ – Russian Visitors to the Cape pp. 1247-1249

Randolph Vigne

Money, Debt and Aspiration in South Africa pp. 1249-1250

Jan Kees van Donge

Democracy Matters pp. 1250-1251

Henning Melber

Comparative Studies on IT and Digital Resources in Africa pp. 1252-1253

Christian John Makgala

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 42, issue 5, 2016

Introduction: Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa pp. 797-813

Maxim Bolt and Dinah Rajak

Marikana Commission of Inquiry: From Narratives Towards History pp. 815-839

Peter Alexander

Making Mincemeat out of Mutton-Eaters: Social Origins of the NUM Decline on Platinum pp. 841-856

T. Dunbar Moodie

The Road to Marikana: Transformations in South Africa’s Platinum Industry, 1994–2012 pp. 857-873

Raphael Chaskalson

The Violence of Work: Revisiting South Africa’s ‘Labour Question’ Through Precarity and Anti-Blackness pp. 875-891

Franco Barchiesi

Slaves, Workers, and Wine: The ‘Dop System’ in the History of the Cape Wine Industry, 1658–1894 pp. 893-909

Gavin Williams

Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation: Enforcing Farm Hierarchies on the Zimbabwean–South African Border pp. 911-927

Maxim Bolt

Hope and Betrayal on the Platinum Belt: Responsibility, Violence and Corporate Power in South Africa pp. 929-946

Dinah Rajak

Strands of Struggle: Dealing with Health Citizenship in the Aftermath of Asbestos Mining pp. 947-963

Linda Waldman

Insecurity in South African Social Security: An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting pp. 965-982

Natasha Thandiwe Vally

‘Please GO HOME and BUILD Africa’: Criminalising Immigrants in South Africa pp. 983-998

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp and Mark Shaw

Afterword: Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa pp. 999-1003

Anne-Maria Makhulu

‘More a Cause than a Country’: Historiography, UDI and the Crisis of Decolonisation in Rhodesia pp. 1005-1019

Tinashe Nyamunda

Whiteness and the End of Apartheid pp. 1021-1022

Richard Ballard

Youth and Masquerades in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique pp. 1022-1024

Janne Rantala

Elite Autobiography in Botswana pp. 1024-1025

Christian John Makgala

Volume 42, issue 4, 2016

Editorial pp. 569-576

Colin Bundy

Organised Crime in Late Apartheid and the Transition to a New Criminal Order: The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’ pp. 577-594

Mark Shaw and Simone Haysom

Urbanisation and Peri-Urbanisation in Luanda: A Geopolitical and Socio-Spatial Perspective from the Late Colonial Period to the Present pp. 595-618

Sílvia Leiria Viegas

The Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg pp. 619-641

Vanessa de Pacheco Melo

Subúrbios and Cityness: Exploring Imbrications and Urbanity in Maputo, Mozambique pp. 643-658

Sandra Roque, Miguel Mucavele and Nair Noronha

Brazilian Cities in Mozambique: South–South Development Co-operation or the Projection of Soft Power? pp. 659-674

Fritz Nganje

Commonwealth, Bargains and Influence: British Atomic Relations vis-à-vis South Africa, 1955–1956 pp. 675-686

Lucky E. Asuelime

South Africa and Iran in the Apartheid Era pp. 687-709

H.E. Chehabi

Between ‘Artificial Economics’ and the ‘Discipline of the Market’: Sasol from Parastatal to Privatisation pp. 711-724

Stephen Sparks

The Relationship between Trade in Southern Mozambique and State Formation: Reassessing Hedges on Cattle, Ivory and Brass pp. 725-741

Linell Chewins

Children for Ewes: Child Indenture in the Post-Emancipation Great Karoo: c. 1856–1909 pp. 743-762

Lance van Sittert

No Exit? Emigration Policy and the Consolidation of Apartheid pp. 763-781

Karin A. Shapiro

Shedding New Light on the Historical Development of the ANC pp. 783-788

Tom Lodge

Mining and Paternalism in Colonial Angola pp. 789-790

Paul Stewart

Violence and the Everyday in Angola’s Civil War pp. 790-792

Jon Schubert

African Perceptions of China in Zambia and Angola pp. 792-793

Cheryl Mei-Ting Schmitz

Nationalisms in Lusophone Africa pp. 793-795

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues

Volume 42, issue 3, 2016

Durban and Cape Town as Port Cities: Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean pp. 375-387

Isabel Hofmeyr, Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie and Preben Kaarsholm

Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807 pp. 389-408

Nigel Worden

Mozambique Island, Cape Town and the Organisation of the Slave Trade in the South-West Indian Ocean, c.1797–1807 pp. 409-427

Patrick Harries

Convicts, Carcerality and Cape Colony Connections in the 19th Century pp. 429-442

Clare Anderson

Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s pp. 443-461

Preben Kaarsholm

Betwixt the Oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905–1915) pp. 463-481

Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

The Gold Kings: Sonū Smugglers in Johannesburg, Durban and Lourenço Marques, 1890s–1920s pp. 483-503

Andrew MacDonald

Family, Gender, and Mobility among Passenger Migrants into Colonial Natal: The Story of Moosa Hajee Cassim (c.1840s–1921) pp. 505-522

Goolam Vahed

Rendering the Cape-as-Port: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms/Good Hope, Adamastor and Local-World Literary Formations pp. 523-537

Meg Samuelson

‘The Darker Side of Durban’: South African Crime Fiction and Indian Ocean Underworlds pp. 539-550

Charne Lavery

The Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa pp. 551-556

Andreas Scheba

Hunting and Belonging in South Africa pp. 557-558

Jane Carruthers

C.P. Thunberg and the Natural History of the 18th-Century Cape Colony pp. 558-560

Randolph Vigne

The Franco-Mauritian Elite pp. 560-561

Ngala Chome

Africa-Centred Knowledges pp. 561-563

Steven Van Wolputte

Martin Legassick (1940–2016) pp. 565-567

Colin Bundy and Noor Nieftagodien

Volume 42, issue 2, 2016

Editorial pp. 175-182

Diana Jeater

Biko, Hegel and the End of Black Consciousness: A Historico-Philosophical Discourse on South African Racism pp. 183-194

M. John Lamola

A Dying Ideal: Non-Racialism and Political Parties in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 195-214

Fiona Anciano

The Decline of African Nationalism and the State of South Africa pp. 215-227

Ivor Chipkin

The Nation and its Politics: Discussing Political Modernity in the ‘Other’ South Africa pp. 229-242

Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha

Black Landlords, their Tenants, and the Natives Land Act of 1913 pp. 243-266

Khumisho Moguerane

Reproducing Portuguese Villages in Africa: Agricultural Science, Ideology and Empire pp. 267-281

Cláudia Castelo

Rural Radicalism and the Historical Land Conflict in the Malawian Tea Economy pp. 283-297

Davide Chinigò

South Africa’s System of Dispute Resolution Forums: The Role of the Family and the State in Customary Marriage Dissolution pp. 299-316

Kirsty Button, Elena Moore and Chuma Himonga

Cross-Border Mobility, Violence and Spiritual Healing in Beitbridge District, Zimbabwe pp. 317-331

Francis Musoni

‘Better Breeds?’ The Colonial State, Africans and the Cattle Quality Clause in Southern Rhodesia, c.1912–1930 pp. 333-350

Wesley Mwatwara and Sandra Swart

The Curse of Military Commercialism in State Enterprises and Parastatals in Zimbabwe pp. 351-364

Gorden Moyo

‘Rocking Badly’: Namibia at 25 and Complexities pp. 365-367

Dag Henrichsen

Women’s Voices in Namibia’s Liberation Struggle pp. 369-370

Reinhart Kössler

A History of Trade in Colonial Namibia pp. 370-371

Reinhart Kössler

African Print Cultures in Historical Perspective pp. 372-373

Jabulani Mkhize

Volume 42, issue 1, 2016

South Africa in Transition – Introduction pp. 1-3

Jason Robinson, Jonny Steinberg and David Simon

Constitutional Courts as Democratic Consolidators: Insights from South Africa after 20 Years pp. 5-18

Theunis Roux

Understanding the Resurgence of Traditional Authorities in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 19-33

Andrew Ainslie and Thembela Kepe

Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University pp. 35-48

Adam Habib

The Era of Ineluctability? Post-Apartheid South Africa After 20 Years of Democratic Elections pp. 49-64

David Everatt

Apartheid’s Afterlives: Violence, Policing and the South African State pp. 65-78

Gary Kynoch

The Culture of Illegal Abortion in South Africa pp. 79-93

Rebecca Hodes

Twenty Years of Social Cohesion and Nation-Building in South Africa pp. 95-107

Caryn Abrahams

In Pursuit of Transcendence: Honouring Doris Lessing – Introduction pp. 109-110

Ranka Primorac

The Sweetest Dream: Lessing, Zimbabwe and Catholicism pp. 111-125

Anthony Chennells

The Fact of Whiteness: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing – a Historian’s Notebook pp. 127-136

Bill Schwarz

Second World Life Writing: Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin pp. 137-148

Susan Watkins

Continuity, Change and Crisis: Mapping South Africa’s Political Terrain pp. 149-161

Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock

Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe pp. 163-164

Henry Mitchell

Land and Security in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe pp. 164-166

Blessing-Miles Tendi

The Politics of Land and Natural Resources in Madagascar pp. 166-167

Carl Death

A History of Conservation in Botswana’s Okavango Delta pp. 167-169

Catie Gressier

Five Centuries of South African Popular History pp. 169-171

Diana Jeater

The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama pp. 171-172

Justine McConnell

Mission Station Christianity in 19th-Century South Africa pp. 173-174

Emily J. Manktelow