Journal of Southern African Studies

1996 - 2024

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Volume 40, issue 6, 2014

Editorial pp. 1131-1137

Diana Jeater

Popular Community in 18th-Century Southern Africa: Family, Fellowship, Alternative Networks, and Mutual Aid at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795 pp. 1139-1157

Nicole Ulrich

Gungubele and the Tambookie Location 1853–1877: End of a Colonial Experiment pp. 1159-1176

Anne Kelk Mager

Civilising the Cape: Public Art Exhibitions and Cape Visual Culture, 1851–1910 pp. 1177-1191

Anna Tietze and Nicholas Botha

The Role of Alien Trees in South African Forestry and Conservation: Early 20th-Century Research and Debate on Climate Change, Soil Erosion and Hydrology pp. 1193-1214

Harald Witt

Environmental Movements, Climate Change, and Consumption in South Africa pp. 1215-1234

Carl Death

Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett's Radical Middle and Hugh Lewin's Stones Against the Mirror pp. 1235-1250

Isaac Ndlovu

The Origins and Functions of Demonisation Discourses in Britain–Zimbabwe Relations (2000–) pp. 1251-1269

Blessing-Miles Tendi

Introduction: Mobile Soldiers and the Un-National Liberation of Southern Africa pp. 1271-1274

Luise White and Miles Larmer

The Relationship Between UNITA and SWAPO: Allies and Adversaries pp. 1275-1287

Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha

Students, ZAPU, and Special Branch in Francistown, 1964–1972 pp. 1289-1303

Luise White

Nationalism's Exile: Godfrey Nangonya and SWAPO's Sacrifice in Southern Angola pp. 1305-1324

Patricia Hayes

Training and Deployment at Novo Catengue and the Diaries of Jack Simons, 1977–1979 pp. 1325-1342

Steve Davis

Counter-Revolutionary Warfare: the Soweto Intelligence Unit and Southern Itineraries pp. 1343-1361

Nicky Rousseau

South Africa's War, and the Cuban Military, in Angola pp. 1363-1368

Chris Saunders

As Guerras de Libertação e os Sonhos Coloniais. Alianças Secretas, Mapas Imaginados pp. 1369-1370

Stephen Henighan

Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa pp. 1370-1372

Lindelwa Dalamba

Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing, and Building Johannesburg pp. 1372-1374

Russell West-Pavlov

Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957–67 pp. 1374-1375

Chenjerai Hove

Obituary: Colin Murray pp. 1377-1378

William Beinart

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 40, issue 5, 2014

Introduction: Narratives of Nationhood pp. 895-905

Miles Larmer, Marja Hinfelaar, Bizeck J. Phiri, Lyn Schumaker and Morris Szeftel

‘What Then Happened To Our Eden?’: The Long History of Lozi Secessionism, 1890–2013 pp. 907-924

Jack Hogan

‘We Have Killed This Animal Together, May I Also Have a Share?’1 Local–National Political Dynamics in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1950s–1970s pp. 925-941

Iva Peša

The University Of Zambia and the Liberation of Southern Africa, 1966–90 pp. 943-959

Hugh Macmillan

The Colour of Class Revisited: Four Decades of Postcolonialism in Zambia pp. 961-979

Michael Burawoy

‘Women Can Do What Men Can Do’: The Causes and Consequences of Growing Flexibility in Gender Divisions of Labour in Kitwe, Zambia pp. 981-998

Alice Evans

‘Solwezi Mabanga’: Ambivalent Developments on Zambia's New Mining Frontier pp. 999-1013

Rohit Negi

Discordance Through Consensus: Unintended Consequences of the Quest for Consensuality in Zambian Religious Life pp. 1015-1030

Thomas G. Kirsch

The Changing Face of Zambia's Christianity and its Implications for the Public Sphere: A Case Study of Bauleni Township, Lusaka pp. 1031-1045

Austin Cheyeka, Marja Hinfelaar and Bernhard Udelhoven

Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme pp. 1047-1064

Julia Tischler

Narratives of Nationhood and HIV/AIDS: Reflections on Multidisciplinary Research on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Zambia over the Last 30 Years pp. 1065-1089

Anthony Simpson and Virginia Bond

Education and the Economy: Achievements and Shortfalls in Independent Zambia, 1964–2014 pp. 1091-1108

Michelle Mwalimu

Reimagining South African Literature pp. 1109-1123

Duncan Brown

Models of Urban Migration pp. 1125-1127

Gina Porter

Living on the Edge pp. 1127-1128

Lotte Hughes

Dignity and Constitutional Transformation pp. 1128-1130

Catherine Albertyn

Volume 40, issue 4, 2014

Editorial pp. 651-654

Donal Lowry

Critical Reflections on South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act and its Legacies: Introduction pp. 655-665

Cherryl Walker

The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913 pp. 667-688

William Beinart and Peter Delius

‘It Is As Bad To Be a Black Man's Animal As It Is To Be a Black Man’ – The Politics of Species in Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa pp. 689-705

Sandra Swart

Changing Patterns of Rural Land Use and Land Cover in South Africa and their Implications for Land Reform pp. 707-725

M. Timm Hoffman

Quitrent Tenure and the Village System in the Former Ciskei Region of the Eastern Cape: Implications for Contemporary Land Reform of a Century of Social Change pp. 727-744

Luvuyo Wotshela

A Tangled Past: Land Settlement, Removals and Restitution in Letaba District, 1900–2013 pp. 745-760

Michelle Hay

Denying Ownership and Equal Citizenship: Continuities in the State's Use of Law and ‘Custom’, 1913–2013 pp. 761-779

Aninka Claassens

Literacy at South African Mission Stations pp. 781-800

Johan Fourie, Robert Ross and Russel Viljoen

An Imperial Past in Ruins: Joseph Denfield's Photographs of East London, 1960–1965 pp. 801-818

Phindezwa Mnyaka

From Colonial Administration to Development Funding: Characterisations of SACU as a Governance Mechanism pp. 819-838

Richard Gibb and Karen Treasure

The Influence of the Social Context on South African Voters pp. 839-859

Collette Schulz-Herzenberg

Youth Politics: Waiting and Envy in a South African Informal Settlement pp. 861-882

Hannah Dawson

Xhosa History Preserved pp. 883-884

Mbongiseni Buthelezi

Constructing the ‘new’ national culture? pp. 884-886

Gerald Groenewald

Did Zimbabweans Take their Land Back? pp. 886-888

Tinashe Nyamunda

Variants of Islam pp. 889-891

Peter Morey

Decoloniality and Development pp. 891-893

James Graham

Volume 40, issue 3, 2014

Editorial pp. 433-442

Lyn Schumaker

Operation Dongosolo and the Geographies of Urban Poverty in Malawi pp. 443-458

Liam Riley

The Politics of Culture and the Transient Culture of Bojale: Bakgatla-Baga-Kgafela Women's Initiation in Botswana pp. 459-477

Keletso Gaone Setlhabi

Articulating Regional and Ethnic Dissent? Bulawayo's Politicians and their Campaigns to Legalise Shebeens: 1980–2012 pp. 479-498

Busani Mpofu

The Politics of the Parallel Archive: Digital Imperialism and the Future of Record-Keeping in the Age of Digital Reproduction pp. 499-519

Keith Breckenridge

Negotiating and Contesting Gendered and Sexual Identities in the Zimbabwean Diaspora pp. 521-538

Moreblessing Tandeka Tinarwo and Dominic Pasura

Landscapes of Belonging: Female Ex-Combatants Remembering the Liberation Struggle in Urban Maputo pp. 539-557

Jonna Katto

Including Women's Voices? Gender Mainstreaming in EU and SADC Development Strategies for Southern Africa pp. 559-573

Petra Debusscher and Merran Hulse

At Home in the World? Re-Framing Zambia's Literature in English pp. 575-591

Ranka Primorac

Anatomy of the Challenges Facing Zambian Writers and Publishers of Literary Works pp. 593-606

Cheela Himutwe K. Chilala

Playing Catch-Up pp. 607-613

Ellen Banda-Aaku

A Zambian Author's Contestation of Common Perspectives on Self-Publishing pp. 615-621

Sekelani S. Banda

‘Men Between’: The Role of Zambian Broadcasters in Decolonisation pp. 623-640

Robert Heinze

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.), Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013) xi + 476 pp. £29.50 paperback, ISBN 978-1-86814-566-9 pp. 641-643

David Johnson

Isabel Hofmeyr, Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013), viii + 218 pp., £18.95 hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-07279-4 pp. 643-645

Harish Trivedi

Maria J. López, Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee (Rodopi Cross/Cultures 140, Amsterdam, New York, 2011), 374 pp., $111.00 hardback, ISBN 978-90-420-3407-5 pp. 645-646

Sue Kossew

Robert I. Rotberg, Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities (Cambridge, UK and Malden, Mass., Polity Press, 2013), viii + 269 pp., £17.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-7456-6163-6 pp. 647-648

Giacomo Macola

Giordano Nanni, The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012), 288 pp., £70 hardback, ISBN 978-0-7190-8271-9 pp. 649-650

Emily J. Manktelow

Volume 40, issue 2, 2014

Editorial pp. 239-245

Joost Fontein

Power-Sharing in Zanzibar: From Zero-Sum Politics to Democratic Consensus? pp. 247-265

Aley Soud Nassor and Jim Jose

Bad Examples: Missionary Misbehaviour as an Indicator of the Impact of Social Distance and the Evolution of Social Order in the American Zulu Mission pp. 267-282

Sara C. Jorgensen

Missionaries, African Patients, and Negotiating Missionary Medicine at Kalene Hospital, Zambia, 1906–1935 pp. 283-294

Walima T. Kalusa

Evangelists, Migrants and Progressive Farmers: Basotho as ‘Progressive Africans’ in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1927 pp. 295-307

Joseph Mujere

The State, Citizens and Control: Film and African Audiences in South Africa, 1910–1948 pp. 309-323

Gairoonisa Paleker

Building a Nation: The Sowetan and the Creation of a Black Public pp. 325-341

Lesley Cowling

Soft Masculinities, Isicathamiya and Radio pp. 343-360

Liz Gunner

May Real Men Cry in Court? Masculinity, Equality and the South African Constitutional Court pp. 361-379

Marius Pieterse

Ukuthwala in Rural South Africa: Abduction Marriage as a Site of Negotiation about Gender, Rights and Generational Authority Among the Xhosa pp. 381-399

Kate Rice

Kinship in Practice: Spatial Distribution of Children's Kin Networks pp. 401-418

Sangeetha Madhavan, Paul Mee and Mark Collinson

Clandestine Histories: The ANC in Exile pp. 419-424

Tom Lodge

Erin McCandless, Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe: Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change (Plymouth, UK, Lexington Books 2011), xv+254 pp., £44.95 hardback ISBN: 978-0739125953 pp. 425-426

David Mandiyanike

Harri Englund, Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press 2011), x+294 pp., US$28 paperback, US$70 hardback, ISBN 978-0-253-22346-0 pp. 426-428

Wendy Willems

Richard Elphick, The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa (Charlottesville and London, University of Virginia Press, 2012), viii+437 pp., £35, hardback ISBN 978-0-8139-3273-6 pp. 428-430

Kevin Ward

Patrick Harries and David Maxwell (eds), The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK, Eerdmans, 2012), xvi+431 pp., £29.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8028-6634-9 pp. 430-432

James R. Cochrane

Volume 40, issue 1, 2014

Editorial pp. 1-6

Morris Szeftel

Inside Out – The New Literary Geographies of the Post-Apartheid City in Mpe's and Vladislavić's Johannesburg Writing pp. 7-19

Russell West-Pavlov

Resettlement and the Making of the Ciskei Bantustan, South Africa, c.1960–1976 pp. 21-40

Laura Evans

Stability and Transformation in a South African Landscape: Rural Livelihoods, Governmental Interventions and Agro-Economic Change in Thaba Nchu pp. 41-57

Christiane Naumann

AIDS Activism in the Age of ARV Treatment in South Africa: Christianity, Resource Mobilisation and the Meanings of Engagement pp. 59-74

Marian Burchardt

Embracing Racial Reasoning: The DASO Poster Controversy and ‘Race’ Politics in Contemporary South Africa pp. 75-90

Louise Vincent and Simon Howell

Slow Activism in Fast Times: Reflections on the Politics of Media Spectacles after Apartheid pp. 91-110

Steven Robins

It's My Party: Opposition Politics, Party Motivation and Electoral Strategy in Namibia pp. 111-127

Ian Cooper

Married to the ANC: Tanzanian Women's Entanglement in South Africa's Liberation Struggle pp. 129-150

Arianna Lissoni and Maria Suriano

South African Migrant Teachers' Decision-Making: Levels of Influence and ‘Relative Deprivation’ pp. 151-165

Sadhana Manik

Old Oranges in New Boxes? Strategic Partnerships between Emerging Farmers and Agribusinesses in South Africa pp. 167-183

Verena Bitzer and Jos Bijman

South Africa's Energy Policy: Constrained by Nature and Path Dependency pp. 185-202

Sören Scholvin

The Janus Faces of a Middle Power: South Africa's Emergence in International Development pp. 203-216

Helen Yanacopulos

Plundering the Past: History and Nation in Mugabe's Zimbabwe pp. 217-227

Kate Law

Ruth Finnegan, Oral Literature in Africa (Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2012), 614 pp., £15.95 paperback, ISBN: 978-1-906924-70-6 pp. 229-230

Felicity Wood

John McCracken, A History of Malawi 1859–1966 (Woodbridge, UK: James Currey, 2012), xviii + 485 pp., £60/US$99 hardback, ISBN 978-1-84701-050-6 pp. 230-232

Jack Hogan

Heather Hughes, First President: A Life of John L. Dube, Founding President of the ANC (Auckland Park, South Africa, Jacana, 2011), 312 pp., ZAR180/US$35.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-77009-813-8 pp. 232-234

Tom Lodge

Michael R. Mahoney, The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa (Durham NC and London, Duke University Press, 2012), xiv + 292 pp., £16.99 paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5309-6 pp. 234-237

John Lonsdale