Journal of Southern African Studies

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Volume 41, issue 6, 2015

Editorial pp. 1147-1150

Dennis Walder

The Death that Dare(d) Not Speak its Name: The Killing of Sister Aidan Quinlan in the East London Riots of 1952 pp. 1151-1165

Mignonne Breier

‘Equality of Rights for Every Civilised Man South of the Zambezi’: Electoral Engineering in Southern Rhodesia, 1957–65 pp. 1167-1180

Jon Fraenkel

The Politics of Difference and the Forging of a Political ‘Community’: Discourses and Practices of the Charterist Civic Movement in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, 1980–84 pp. 1181-1198

Franziska Rueedi

Governance in Public–Private Partnerships in South Africa: Some Lessons from the Gautrain pp. 1199-1217

Madeleine C. Fombad

Land for Housing: A Political Resource – Reflections from Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas pp. 1219-1238

Davison Muchadenyika

The Pre-history of South African ‘Neo-Liberalism’: The Rise and Fall of Co-operative Farming on the Highveld pp. 1239-1254

Faeeza Ballim

‘Does the Daily Paper rule Britannia’: British Press Coverage of a Malawi Youth League Demonstration in Blantyre, Nyasaland, in January 1960 pp. 1255-1277

Rosalind Coffey

The Intimate Politics of the Education Market: High-Stakes Schooling and the Making of Kinship in Umlazi Township, South Africa pp. 1279-1300

Mark Hunter

Donor Funding to Community Radio Stations in Malawi and its Impact on their Performance pp. 1301-1314

Peter Mhagama

When the War De-Professionalises Soldiers: Wartime Stories in Exile pp. 1315-1329

Godfrey Maringira

What ‘Other Devils’? The Texts of Sol T. Plaatje’s Mhudi Revisited pp. 1331-1347

Brian Willan

HIV/AIDS and Silence in South Africa pp. 1349-1358

Jenny Doubt

Popular Theories of AIDS in South Africa’s Townships pp. 1359-1360

Anthony Simpson

Gay Rights in Post-Apartheid Namibia pp. 1360-1362

Ashley Currier

Agency, Citizenship and Resistance in Africa pp. 1362-1363

Emma Hunter

National Human Rights Institutions in Global Perspectives pp. 1364-1366

Catherine Albertyn

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 41, issue 5, 2015

Corrigendum: Fragments Of The Past: Homeland Politics And The South African Transition, 1990 – 2014 pp. i-i

Jason Robinson

Homelands as Frontiers: Apartheid's Loose Ends – An Introduction pp. 937-952

Steffen Jensen and Olaf Zenker

Fragments of the Past: Homeland Politics and the South African Transition, 1990–2014 pp. 953-967

Jason Robinson

Material Remains: Artifice versus Artefact(s) in the Archive of Bantustan Rule pp. 969-989

Shireen Ally

This House Is Not My Own …! Temporalities in a South African Homeland pp. 991-1004

Steffen Jensen

Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa pp. 1005-1017

Hylton White

South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele pp. 1019-1034

Olaf Zenker

‘Women Use their Strength in the House’: Savings Clubs in an Mpumalanga Village pp. 1035-1052

Deborah James

Moralising Magic? A Brief History of Football Potions in a South African Homeland Area, 1958 – 2010 pp. 1053-1066

Isak Niehaus

City Slums, Rural Homesteads: Migrant Culture, Displaced Urbanism and the Citizenship of the Serviced House pp. 1067-1081

Leslie Bank

‘Keeping Land for Their Children’: Generation, Migration and Land in South Africa’s Transkei pp. 1083-1097

Derick A. Fay

Tributes to Terence Ranger: Introduction pp. 1099-1101

Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor

Terence Ranger: African Historian and Activist pp. 1102-1106

John McCracken

Terence Ranger at the University of Cape Town pp. 1106-1108

Patrick Harries

Terence Ranger as Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford pp. 1108-1115

William Beinart

Doing Zimbabwean History with Terence Ranger: A Personal Note pp. 1115-1122

Gerald Chikozho Mazarire

Terence Ranger’s Return to the University of Zimbabwe in the Late 1990s pp. 1122-1125

Brian Raftopoulos

A Memorial from a Sparring Partner? pp. 1125-1127

Richard Werbner

A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger’s Work pp. 1128-1131

Diana Jeater

The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History pp. 1133-1136

Shula Marks

The White Man’s World (Memories of Empire) pp. 1136-1138

Alastair Niven

Conditional Tense: After the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission pp. 1138-1140

Dirk Klopper

The Golden Fleece of the Cape: Capitalist Expansion and Labour Relations in the Periphery of Transnational Wool Production, c.1860–1950 pp. 1140-1141

Lance van Sittert

Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula pp. 1141-1143

Stephen J. Pyne

Corrigendum: Contesting the Past in Angolan Politics pp. 1145-1145

Justin Pearce

Volume 41, issue 4, 2015

Editorial pp. 703-705

Anthony Simpson

Science and Scandal in South Africa: Introduction pp. 707-714

Rebecca Hodes and Lyn Schumaker

Kink and the Colony: Sexual Deviance in the Medical History of South Africa, c. 1893–1939 pp. 715-733

Rebecca Hodes

‘Are We Going to Stand By and Let These Children Come Into the World?’: The Impact of the ‘Thalidomide Disaster’ in South Africa, 1960–1977 pp. 735-752

Susanne M. Klausen and Julie Parle

Jackal Narratives: Predator Control and Contested Ecologies in the Karoo, South Africa pp. 753-771

Nicoli Nattrass and Beatrice Conradie

From ‘Dark Country’ to ‘Dark Continent’: AIDS, ‘Race’, and Medical Research in the South African Medical Journal, 1980–1995 pp. 773-796

Carla Tsampiras

Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a Social and Economic Resource among Youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape pp. 797-813

Beth Vale and Mildred Thabeng

The Biometric Imaginary: Bureaucratic Technopolitics in Post-Apartheid Welfare pp. 815-833

Kevin P. Donovan

2002, Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the ‘New Angola’ pp. 835-852

Jon Schubert

Ovimbundu Identity Attributions in Post-War Angola pp. 853-867

Vasco Martins

‘It Will Be Our Time To Eat’: Former Renamo Combatants and Big-Man Dynamics in Central Mozambique pp. 869-885

Nikkie Wiegink

Civil Society in Southern Africa – Transformers from Below? pp. 887-904

Tim Zajontz and Anthony Leysens

Volume, Power, Originality: Reassessing the Complexities of Soweto Poetry pp. 905-923

Tom Penfold

South Africa Between the Past and the Future pp. 925-930

Allison Drew

Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 931-932

Jason Robinson

Are Trout South African? Stories of Fish, People and Places pp. 932-933

C.J. Driver

San Rock Art pp. 934-934

Michael Wessels

Ingrid Jonker: Poet under Apartheid pp. 934-935

Kobus Moolman

Volume 41, issue 3, 2015

Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa pp. 431-435

Dag Henrichsen, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool and Lorena Rizzo

Empire and Nation pp. 437-450

Premesh Lalu

Air Power in South Africa, 1914–1939 pp. 451-465

Tilman Dedering

Nature, War and Development: South Africa's Caprivi Strip, 1960–1980 pp. 467-483

Luregn Lenggenhager

An Empire of Rivers: The Scheme to Flood the Kalahari, 1919–1945 pp. 485-504

Meredith McKittrick

Forging the Fifth Province pp. 505-518

Jeremy Silvester

The Rise of the Compound–Hostel–Location Assemblage as Infrastructure of South African Colonial Power: The Case of Walvis Bay 1915–1960 pp. 519-539

Andrew Byerley

Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam pp. 541-560

Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman

The NE 51 Series Frontier: The Grand Narrative of Apartheid Planning and the Small Town pp. 561-580

Giorgio Miescher

Regional and Local Dynamics in the Shaping of the Centre for African Studies in Maputo, 1976–1986 pp. 581-597

Carlos Fernandes

The Empire Writes Back: African Challenges to the Brutish (South African) Empire in the Early 20th Century pp. 599-616

Peter Limb

The Graves of Dimbaza and the Empire of Liberation pp. 617-634

Helena Pohlandt-McCormick and Gary Minkley

Personal Circuits: Official Tours and South Africa's Colony pp. 635-652

Marion Wallace

Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire: Return, Reburial and Rehumanisation in Southern Africa pp. 653-670

Ciraj Rassool

Hunting for Museums* pp. 671-685

Leslie Witz

Secrets and Lives: South African Political Biography pp. 687-697

Tom Lodge

A World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa pp. 699-700

Peter D. McDonald

Press Freedom in Africa: Comparative Perspectives pp. 700-702

Lesley Cowling

Volume 41, issue 2, 2015

Editorial pp. 215-218

Diana Jeater

‘In the Border Regions of the Territory of Rhodesia, There Is the Greatest Scourge …’: The Border and East Coast Fever Control in Central Mozambique and Eastern Zimbabwe, 1901–1942 pp. 219-235

Francis Dube

Developmentalist Attitudes and Old Habits: Portuguese Labour Policies, South African Rivalry, and Flight in Southern Angola, 1945–1974 pp. 237-253

Alexander Keese

Chiefly Power in a Frontline State: Kgosi Linchwe II, the Bakgatla and Botswana in the South African Liberation Struggle, 1948–1994 pp. 255-272

Louisa Cantwell

Bantu Authorities and Betterment in Natal: The Ambiguous Responses of Chiefs and Regents, 1955–1970 pp. 273-297

Jill E. Kelly

Principals, Chiefs and School Committees: The Localisation of Rural School Administration in Lebowa, 1972–1990 pp. 299-314

Laura Phillips

The Malicious Football Game: Urban Interactions and Power Relations in Lourenço Marques, Capital of Colonial Mozambique pp. 315-334

Nuno Domingos

A Voortrekker Memorial in Revolutionary Maputo pp. 335-352

David Morton

Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the Imagination of a New South Africa pp. 353-366

Crain Soudien

A ‘Political War of Words and Bullets’: Defining and Defying Sides of Struggle for Housing in Crossroads, South Africa pp. 367-387

Koni Benson

The Corporate Social Responsibility Projects of the Oil Companies in Angola: Anecdotal Fact or Significant New Trend in Public Health Development Intervention? pp. 389-404

Virginie Tallio

Inside the Government, but Outside the Law: Residents' Committees, Public Authority and Twilight Governance in Post-War Angola pp. 405-417

Sylvia Croese

Controversy, Conflict and Struggle in South Africa pp. 419-423

Lawrence Hamilton

Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers pp. 425-429

Peter Kallaway

Mandela's Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan pp. 427-428

Randolph Vigne

Olive Schreiner pp. 428-429

Heather Hughes

Corrigendum pp. 430-430

The Editors

Volume 41, issue 1, 2015

Editorial pp. 1-8

Lyn Schumaker

The Finance–Mining Nexus in South Africa: How Mining Companies Use the South African Equity Market to Speculate pp. 9-28

Ewa Karwowski

Rain and Copper: The Evolution of a Fish Marketing Channel in a Rapidly Changing Region of Southern Africa pp. 29-45

James G. Abbott, Clinton J. Hay, Tor F. Næsje, Denis Tweddle and Ben C.W. van der Waal

Suffering and Protest in Rhodesian Prisons During the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle pp. 47-61

Munyaradzi Bryn Munochiveyi

‘Love I Cannot Begin to Explain’: The Politics of Reproduction in the ANC in Exile, 1976–1990 pp. 63-81

Rachel Sandwell

The Politics of Remembering and Commemorating Atrocity in South Africa: The Bhisho Massacre and its Aftermath, 1992–2012 pp. 83-102

Stephanie Victor

Contesting the Past in Angolan Politics pp. 103-119

Justin Pearce

Stepchildren of Liberation: South African Farm Workers' Elusive Rights to Organise and Bargain Collectively pp. 121-140

Simon Pahle

‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg pp. 141-158

Khangelani Moyo and Erma Cossa

Soweto's Islands of Learning: Morris Isaacson and Orlando High Schools Under Bantu Education, 1958–1975 pp. 159-171

Clive Glaser

Black Consciousness's Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the Seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s pp. 173-186

Anne Heffernan

Forging a New South Africa: Plagiarism, Ventriloquism and the ‘Black Voice’ in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull pp. 187-206

Kate Highman

African Intellectuals and Decolonization pp. 207-208

Akin Adesokan

War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State pp. 208-210

Susan Levine

Invisible Agents: Spirits in Central African History pp. 210-211

Reuben Loffman

The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902–1994; Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River pp. 211-214

Tara Weinberg