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January 2018, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 97-113 How Good People Become Absurd: J.P. van S. Bruwer, the Making of Namibian Grand Apartheid and the Decline of Volkekunde
by Robert Gordon - 115-132 The Bantu Authorities System: Removals in Mthunzini District during Apartheid
by Veronica Nosipho Ehrenreich-Risner - 133-148 Nelson Mandela and the Genesis of the ANC’s Armed Struggle: Notes on Method
by Thula Simpson - 149-165 Vella Pillay: Revolutionary Activism and Economic Policy Analysis
by Vishnu Padayachee & John Sender - 167-184 Merging Radical and Liberal Traditions: The Constitution Committee and the Development of Democratic Thought in the African National Congress, 1986–1990
by Heidi Brooks - 185-188 Making Museums Matter in South Africa
by Jeremy Silvester - 188-190 War, Secession and the Legacy of the Katangese State Project in Congo
by Justin Pearce - 190-192 A History of Abortion in Apartheid South Africa
by Sacha Hepburn - 192-194 Nationalism and the Betrayed Revolution in Zimbabwe
by Miles Tendi - 194-196 Race, Etiquette and Colonial Nation-Building in Southern Rhodesia
by Diana Jeater - 197-199 Kenneth John McCracken, 1938–2017
by Megan Vaughan
November 2017, Volume 43, Issue 6
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1115-1117 Editorial
by Andrew Brooks - 1119-1135 The Radical and Reactionary Politics of Malawi’s Hastings Banda: Roots, Fruit and Legacy
by Clive Gabay - 1137-1155 The Politics of the Corpse: President Levy Mwanawasa’s Death, Funeral and Political Contestation in Post-Colonial Zambia
by Walima T. Kalusa - 1157-1179 Mueda Massacre: The Musical Archive
by Paolo Israel - 1181-1198 Land Concessions and Rural Livelihoods in Mozambique: The Gap Between Anticipated and Real Benefits of a Chinese Investment in the Limpopo Valley
by Juliana Porsani & Lowe Börjeson & Kari Lehtilä - 1199-1214 ‘Parks with People’ in Mozambique: Community Dynamic Responses to Human–Elephant Conflict at Limpopo National Park
by Nícia Givá & Kaisa Raitio - 1215-1234 Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: Angola’s Urban Mining Settlements in the Aftermath of War
by Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues - 1235-1254 In Search of ‘One Good Public School’: The Cape Colonial Education Project, 1865–1873
by Helen Ludlow - 1255-1272 The Micro-History of a South African Murder
by Jeremy Krikler - 1273-1291 ‘They Are Fine Specimens of the Illustrious Indian Settler’: Sporting Contact between India and South Africa, 1914–1955
by Chris Bolsmann & Goolam Vahed - 1293-1307 Social Positioning of Older Persons in Rural South Africa: Change or Stability?
by Sangeetha Madhavan & Enid Schatz & F. Xavier Gómes-Olivé & Mark Collinson - 1309-1311 What Class is the African Middle Class?
by Andrew Brooks - 1311-1313 Namibian Elite Generations
by Julia Pauli - 1313-1314 The Black South African Middle Class
by Jason Sumich - 1315-1316 Gender and a Violent Christianity in Mozambique
by Ilana van Wyk - 1316-1317 Reconciliation, Christianity and the Politics of Non-Conformism in Zimbabwe
by Sara Rich Dorman - 1318-1319 Marriage, Customs and Contestation in South Africa
by Pnina Werbner
September 2017, Volume 43, Issue 5
- 1-1 Features of Modernity, Development and ‘Orientalism’: Reading Johannesburg through its ‘Chinese’ Urban Spaces
by Romain Dittgen - 853-861 Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
by Lyn Schumaker & Andrew Brooks & Mpalive-Hangson Msiska & Edward Pollard & Deborah Potts - 863-877 The Geopolitics and Economics of BRICS’ Resource and Market Access in Southern Africa: Aiding Development or Creating Dependency?
by Pádraig Carmody - 879-893 Trade, Globalisation and the Archaic State in Southern Africa
by Innocent Pikirayi - 895-911 Copper, Trade and Polities: Exchange Networks in Southern Central Africa in the 2nd Millennium CE
by Nicolas Nikis & Alexandre Livingstone Smith - 913-926 Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Commodity Exchange between the Indian Ocean Region and Interior Southern Africa during 8th–15th Centuries CE
by Edwin N. Wilmsen - 927-947 The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean Trade Patterns in the 7th–10th Centuries CE
by Edward Pollard & Okeny Charles Kinyera - 949-960 Urban Experiences ‘Beyond the West’: Comparing Cities in Southern African and BRIC Countries
by Deborah Potts - 961-978 Comparative Perspectives on South Africa’s and Brazil’s Institutional Inequalities under Progressive Social Policies
by Madalitso Zililo Phiri - 979-996 Features of Modernity, Development and ‘Orientalism’: Reading Johannesburg through its ‘Chinese’ Urban Spaces
by Romain Dittgen - 997-1010 Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India: Re-Evaluating the Object
by Megan Jones - 1011-1029 Kujoni: South Africa in Malawi’s National Imaginary
by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska - 1031-1047 Representations of Revolutionary Violence in Recent Indian and South African Fiction
by Michael Wessels - 1049-1067 A Specific Kind of Violence: Insanity and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian and South African Literature
by Tom Penfold - 1069-1085 Understanding Post-War Foreign Direct Investment in Angola: South–South Led or the West Still Rules?
by Fernandes Wanda - 1087-1101 China and Brazil as Southern Africa’s Non-Interfering Development Partners: Rhetoric or Reality?
by Cynthia M. Kamwengo - 1103-1104 Soviet Military Specialists and Instructors in Angola
by Colin Darch - 1104-1106 Intimate Counter-Histories of African–Asian Solidarities
by Parvathi Raman - 1106-1108 Early Histories of China in Africa
by Jeremy Martens - 1108-1109 BRICS and the New Scramble for Africa
by Ian Taylor - 1110-1111 South African Writers, Apartheid and the Black Diaspora
by Dennis Walder - 1112-1114 Angola Since the Civil War
by Cristina Udelsmann-Rodrigues
July 2017, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 655-661 Editorial
by Diana Jeater - 663-679 Moving Beyond Ethnic Framing: Political Differentiation in the Chiefdoms of the KwaZulu-Natal Region before 1830
by Carolyn Hamilton & John Wright - 681-697 Further Beyond the Pale: Decolonisation, Historians and Military Discourse in the 18th and 19th Centuries on the Eastern Cape ‘Frontier’
by Denver A. Webb - 699-714 To Die For: Inherited Leadership (Bogosi) Among the Tswana Before 1885
by Fred Morton - 715-732 From Diamonds to Gold: The Making of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1880–1890
by Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 733-751 The Rise and Fall of the Opium Trade in the Transvaal, 1904–1910
by Thembisa Waetjen - 753-770 Why Have South African Smallholders Largely Abandoned Arable Production in Fields? A Case Study
by Matthew de la Hey & William Beinart - 771-787 From Worker Mobilisation to Policy Engagement: NALEDI and the Remaking of COSATU in the 1990s
by Carolyn Bassett - 789-803 Contracting out of the Constitution: Labour Brokers, Post Office Casual Workers and the Failure of South Africa’s Industrial Relations Framework
by David Dickinson - 805-824 Out of Time: Global Settlerism, Nostalgia, and the Selling of the Rhodesian Rebellion Overseas
by Josiah Brownell - 825-836 Compelled to Perform in the ‘Oppressor’s’ Language? Ndebele Performing Artists and Zimbabwe’s Shona-Centric Habitus
by Gibson Ncube & Gugulethu Siziba - 837-839 The Meaning of Mandela: A Broader Canvas
by Julia Suárez-Krabbe - 840-841 The Meaning(s) of Mugabe(ism)
by Gareth D. James - 842-843 A History of Childhood in the Cape Colony
by Sacha Hepburn - 843-845 National Storytellers
by Dan Hodgkinson - 846-848 On Truths about Truth in Mozambique’s Liberation Struggle
by K.B. Wilson - 848-850 Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Politics of Remorse
by Reinhart Kössler - 851-851 The Late Nadine Gordimer
by Graham K. Riach
May 2017, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 447-470 The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa – Introduction
by Alex Dubb & Ian Scoones & Philip Woodhouse - 471-499 Interrogating the Logic of Accumulation in the Sugar Sector in Southern Africa
by Alex Dubb - 501-515 The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi
by Blessings Chinsinga - 517-533 Social Differentiation and the Politics of Land: Sugar Cane Outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania
by Emmanuel Sulle - 535-549 Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
by Paul James & Philip Woodhouse - 551-566 Outgrowers and Livelihoods: The Case of Magobbo Smallholder Block Farming in Mazabuka District in Zambia
by Chrispin R. Matenga - 567-584 Sugar, People and Politics in Zimbabwe’s Lowveld
by Ian Scoones & Blasio Mavedzenge & Felix Murimbarimba - 585-603 Restructuring the Swazi Sugar Industry: The Changing Role and Political Significance of Smallholders
by Alan Terry & Mike Ogg - 605-623 Gendered Labour, Migratory Labour: Reforming Sugar Regimes in Xinavane, Mozambique
by Alicia H. Lazzarini - 625-641 Consuming Bodies: Health and Work in the Cane Fields in Xinavane, Mozambique
by Bridget O’Laughlin - 643-644 ‘Hunting’ and ‘Collecting’ Human Bodies in German South West Africa
by Reinhart Kössler - 644-646 Whiteness, Race and South Africa’s Colonial Project
by Annika Teppo - 646-648 The Politics of Heritage in Africa
by Ann Reed - 648-649 The Road to Soweto
by Toivo Asheeke - 650-651 South African Jews in Israel
by Pnina Werbner - 651-653 Migration, Xenophobia and Entrepreneurship in South Africa
by Efua Prah
March 2017, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 1-1 Erratum
by The Editors - 245-250 Editorial
by Anthony Simpson - 251-265 ‘Brought into Manhood’: Christianity and Male Initiation in South Africa in the Early 20th Century
by Natasha Erlank - 267-281 Cutting to the Chase: Donor Expediency Drives the Campaign for Safe Male Circumcision in Botswana
by Krista Johnson - 283-297 Changing Understandings of Gender and Parenthood in a North-Central Namibian Village
by Mari Tarkkonen - 299-313 Enacting Compassion: Hot/Cold, Illness and Taboos in Northern Mozambique
by Arianna Huhn - 315-330 Selective Memory: British Perceptions of the Herero–Nama Genocide, 1904–1908 and 1918
by Mads Bomholt Nielsen - 331-347 Germany’s Colonial Policy in German South-West Africa in the Light of International Criminal Law
by Klaus Bachmann - 349-363 Building a Perfect Pest: Environment, People, Conflict and the Creation of a Rinderpest Epizootic in Southern Africa
by Gary Marquardt - 365-380 Beloved Countries: Labour, Landscape and the Politics of Conservation in Three Novels from KwaZulu-Natal
by Brady Smith - 381-396 Path Dependence in Nebo Plateau: Strategic Partnerships and Rural Poverty Alleviation in South African Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes
by Magalie Bourblanc & Raphaëlle Ducrot & Everisto Mapedza - 397-410 Colonial Wars, Colonial Alliances: The Alcora Exercise in the Context of Southern Africa
by Maria Paula Meneses & Celso Braga Rosa & Bruno Sena Martins - 411-424 Confucius Institutes in Africa, or How the Educational Spirit in Africa is Re-Rationalised Towards the East
by Amy Stambach & Aikande Kwayu - 425-432 Damming the Zambezi: Light and Power for Which Nation?
by Joost Fontein - 433-434 A History of Apartheid
by Adrian Guelke - 434-436 The Problem with Democracy in Post-Apartheid Kwa-Zulu Natal
by Colin Bundy - 436-437 An Ethnography of Trade Unions in Botswana
by Alexander Beresford - 438-440 A History of Resistance in Colonial Nyasaland
by Derek R. Peterson - 440-441 Food and Everyday Life from Colonialism to Postcolonialism in Malawi
by Harvey C. Chidoba Banda - 443-446 Patrick Allan Lifford Harries, 1950–2016
by Saul Dubow
January 2017, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-12 The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements: An Introduction
by Jocelyn Alexander & JoAnn McGregor & Blessing-Miles Tendi - 13-27 Global Ideologies, Local Politics: The Cold War as Seen from Central Angola
by Justin Pearce - 29-48 ‘Makers of Bonds and Ties’: Transnational Socialisation and National Liberation in Mozambique
by Daniel Kaiser - 49-66 African Soldiers in the USSR: Oral Histories of ZAPU Intelligence Cadres’ Soviet Training, 1964–1979
by Jocelyn Alexander & JoAnn McGregor - 67-81 Mediators of Liberation: Eastern-Bloc Officials, Mozambican Diplomacy and the Origins of Soviet Support for Frelimo, 1958–1965
by Natalia Telepneva - 83-106 ZANU’s External Networks 1963–1979: An Appraisal
by Gerald Chikozho Mazarire - 107-124 Front Line Diplomats: African Diplomatic Representations of the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, 1976–1978
by Timothy Scarnecchia - 125-141 Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 1961–1968
by Christian A. Williams - 143-159 Transnationalism, Contingency and Loyalty in African Liberation Armies: The Case of ZANU’s 1974–1975 Nhari Mutiny
by Blessing-Miles Tendi - 161-178 Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU Relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
by Clinarete Victoria Luis Munguambe - 179-193 ‘Past History Has Not Been Forgotten’: The ANC/ZAPU Alliance – the Second Phase, 1978–1980
by Hugh Macmillan - 195-214 Apartheid’s Transnational Soldiers: The Case of Black Namibian Soldiers in South Africa’s Former Security Forces
by Lennart Bolliger - 215-223 Relations between ZAPU and the USSR, 1960s–1970s: A Personal View
by Dumiso Dabengwa - 225-233 Moscow and Zimbabwe’s Liberation
by Vladimir Shubin - 235-236 Nation-Building and the State in Southern African Liberation Movements
by Henning Melber - 237-238 East Germany and the Politics of Education in Mozambique
by Victor Igreja - 238-239 The Burden of History: Namibia and Germany from Colonialism to Postcolonialism
by Heike Becker - 240-241 The Presence of History in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Heinz Klug - 241-242 ‘Lifestyle’ British Migrants to South Africa
by Pnina Werbner - 242-243 Being ‘Anglo-Africans’ in British Africa
by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
November 2016, Volume 42, Issue 6
- 1-1 Contested Terrain: Identity and Women’s Suffrage in Mauritius
by Ramola Ramtohul - 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1027-1031 Editorial
by Dennis Walder - 1033-1044 Gordimer’s Pathologies
by Stephen Clingman - 1045-1057 Then and Now: Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979) and No Time Like the Present (2012)
by Ileana Dimitriu - 1059-1076 Prison and Political Struggle in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter
by Sorcha Gunne - 1077-1094 The Late Nadine Gordimer
by Graham K. Riach - 1095-1108 The Idea of Reading in Early 20th-Century South Africa
by Corinne Sandwith - 1109-1124 Making and Unmaking ‘African Foreignness’: African Settings, African Migrants and the Migrant Detective in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction
by Rebecca Fasselt - 1125-1142 Perceptions of Daisy de Melker: Representations of a Sensational Trial
by Bridget Grogan - 1143-1160 ‘The Day that Fell Off the Calendar’: 16 June, South African Newspapers, and the Making of a National Holiday, 1977–1996
by Rachel E. Johnson - 1161-1177 ‘Hidrunisa Samora’: Invocations of a Dead Political Leader in Maputo Rap
by Janne Rantala - 1179-1191 Dangerous AIDS Myths or Preconceived Perceptions? A Critical Study of the Meaning and Impact of Myths about HIV/AIDS in South Africa
by Jonas Sivelä - 1193-1206 Falling through the Cracks of South Africa’s Liberation: Comrades’ Counter-Memories of Squatter Resistance in the 1980s
by Kim Wale - 1207-1223 Icons of the Old Regime: Challenging South African Public Memory Strategies in #RhodesMustFall
by Carolyn E. Holmes & Melanie Loehwing - 1225-1239 Contested Terrain: Identity and Women’s Suffrage in Mauritius
by Ramola Ramtohul - 1241-1246 Political Histories of Southern Africa’s Kingdoms and Chiefdoms
by John Wright - 1247-1249 ‘Everything is Foreign and Strange’ – Russian Visitors to the Cape
by Randolph Vigne - 1249-1250 Money, Debt and Aspiration in South Africa
by Jan Kees van Donge - 1250-1251 Democracy Matters
by Henning Melber - 1252-1253 Comparative Studies on IT and Digital Resources in Africa
by Christian John Makgala
September 2016, Volume 42, Issue 5
- 797-813 Introduction: Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa
by Maxim Bolt & Dinah Rajak - 815-839 Marikana Commission of Inquiry: From Narratives Towards History
by Peter Alexander - 841-856 Making Mincemeat out of Mutton-Eaters: Social Origins of the NUM Decline on Platinum
by T. Dunbar Moodie - 857-873 The Road to Marikana: Transformations in South Africa’s Platinum Industry, 1994–2012
by Raphael Chaskalson - 875-891 The Violence of Work: Revisiting South Africa’s ‘Labour Question’ Through Precarity and Anti-Blackness
by Franco Barchiesi - 893-909 Slaves, Workers, and Wine: The ‘Dop System’ in the History of the Cape Wine Industry, 1658–1894
by Gavin Williams - 911-927 Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation: Enforcing Farm Hierarchies on the Zimbabwean–South African Border
by Maxim Bolt - 929-946 Hope and Betrayal on the Platinum Belt: Responsibility, Violence and Corporate Power in South Africa
by Dinah Rajak - 947-963 Strands of Struggle: Dealing with Health Citizenship in the Aftermath of Asbestos Mining
by Linda Waldman - 965-982 Insecurity in South African Social Security: An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting
by Natasha Thandiwe Vally - 983-998 ‘Please GO HOME and BUILD Africa’: Criminalising Immigrants in South Africa
by Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp & Mark Shaw - 999-1003 Afterword: Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa
by Anne-Maria Makhulu - 1005-1019 ‘More a Cause than a Country’: Historiography, UDI and the Crisis of Decolonisation in Rhodesia
by Tinashe Nyamunda - 1021-1022 Whiteness and the End of Apartheid
by Richard Ballard - 1022-1024 Youth and Masquerades in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
by Janne Rantala - 1024-1025 Elite Autobiography in Botswana
by Christian John Makgala
July 2016, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 569-576 Editorial
by Colin Bundy - 577-594 Organised Crime in Late Apartheid and the Transition to a New Criminal Order: The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’
by Mark Shaw & Simone Haysom - 595-618 Urbanisation and Peri-Urbanisation in Luanda: A Geopolitical and Socio-Spatial Perspective from the Late Colonial Period to the Present
by Sílvia Leiria Viegas - 619-641 The Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg
by Vanessa de Pacheco Melo - 643-658 Subúrbios and Cityness: Exploring Imbrications and Urbanity in Maputo, Mozambique
by Sandra Roque & Miguel Mucavele & Nair Noronha - 659-674 Brazilian Cities in Mozambique: South–South Development Co-operation or the Projection of Soft Power?
by Fritz Nganje - 675-686 Commonwealth, Bargains and Influence: British Atomic Relations vis-à-vis South Africa, 1955–1956
by Lucky E. Asuelime - 687-709 South Africa and Iran in the Apartheid Era
by H.E. Chehabi - 711-724 Between ‘Artificial Economics’ and the ‘Discipline of the Market’: Sasol from Parastatal to Privatisation
by Stephen Sparks - 725-741 The Relationship between Trade in Southern Mozambique and State Formation: Reassessing Hedges on Cattle, Ivory and Brass
by Linell Chewins - 743-762 Children for Ewes: Child Indenture in the Post-Emancipation Great Karoo: c. 1856–1909
by Lance van Sittert - 763-781 No Exit? Emigration Policy and the Consolidation of Apartheid
by Karin A. Shapiro - 783-788 Shedding New Light on the Historical Development of the ANC
by Tom Lodge - 789-790 Mining and Paternalism in Colonial Angola
by Paul Stewart - 790-792 Violence and the Everyday in Angola’s Civil War
by Jon Schubert - 792-793 African Perceptions of China in Zambia and Angola
by Cheryl Mei-Ting Schmitz - 793-795 Nationalisms in Lusophone Africa
by Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
May 2016, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 375-387 Durban and Cape Town as Port Cities: Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean
by Isabel Hofmeyr & Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie & Preben Kaarsholm - 389-408 Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807
by Nigel Worden - 409-427 Mozambique Island, Cape Town and the Organisation of the Slave Trade in the South-West Indian Ocean, c.1797–1807
by Patrick Harries - 429-442 Convicts, Carcerality and Cape Colony Connections in the 19th Century
by Clare Anderson - 443-461 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
by Preben Kaarsholm - 463-481 Betwixt the Oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905–1915)
by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie - 483-503 The Gold Kings: Sonū Smugglers in Johannesburg, Durban and Lourenço Marques, 1890s–1920s
by Andrew MacDonald - 505-522 Family, Gender, and Mobility among Passenger Migrants into Colonial Natal: The Story of Moosa Hajee Cassim (c.1840s–1921)
by Goolam Vahed - 523-537 Rendering the Cape-as-Port: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms/Good Hope, Adamastor and Local-World Literary Formations
by Meg Samuelson - 539-550 ‘The Darker Side of Durban’: South African Crime Fiction and Indian Ocean Underworlds
by Charne Lavery - 551-556 The Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa
by Andreas Scheba - 557-558 Hunting and Belonging in South Africa
by Jane Carruthers - 558-560 C.P. Thunberg and the Natural History of the 18th-Century Cape Colony
by Randolph Vigne - 560-561 The Franco-Mauritian Elite
by Ngala Chome - 561-563 Africa-Centred Knowledges
by Steven Van Wolputte - 565-567 Martin Legassick (1940–2016)
by Colin Bundy & Noor Nieftagodien
March 2016, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 175-182 Editorial
by Diana Jeater - 183-194 Biko, Hegel and the End of Black Consciousness: A Historico-Philosophical Discourse on South African Racism
by M. John Lamola - 195-214 A Dying Ideal: Non-Racialism and Political Parties in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Fiona Anciano