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March 2016, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 351-364 The Curse of Military Commercialism in State Enterprises and Parastatals in Zimbabwe
by Gorden Moyo - 365-367 ‘Rocking Badly’: Namibia at 25 and Complexities
by Dag Henrichsen - 369-370 Women’s Voices in Namibia’s Liberation Struggle
by Reinhart Kössler - 370-371 A History of Trade in Colonial Namibia
by Reinhart Kössler - 372-373 African Print Cultures in Historical Perspective
by Jabulani Mkhize
January 2016, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-3 South Africa in Transition – Introduction
by Jason Robinson & Jonny Steinberg & David Simon - 5-18 Constitutional Courts as Democratic Consolidators: Insights from South Africa after 20 Years
by Theunis Roux - 19-33 Understanding the Resurgence of Traditional Authorities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Andrew Ainslie & Thembela Kepe - 35-48 Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University
by Adam Habib - 49-64 The Era of Ineluctability? Post-Apartheid South Africa After 20 Years of Democratic Elections
by David Everatt - 65-78 Apartheid’s Afterlives: Violence, Policing and the South African State
by Gary Kynoch - 79-93 The Culture of Illegal Abortion in South Africa
by Rebecca Hodes - 95-107 Twenty Years of Social Cohesion and Nation-Building in South Africa
by Caryn Abrahams - 109-110 In Pursuit of Transcendence: Honouring Doris Lessing – Introduction
by Ranka Primorac - 111-125 The Sweetest Dream: Lessing, Zimbabwe and Catholicism
by Anthony Chennells - 127-136 The Fact of Whiteness: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing – a Historian’s Notebook
by Bill Schwarz - 137-148 Second World Life Writing: Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin
by Susan Watkins - 149-161 Continuity, Change and Crisis: Mapping South Africa’s Political Terrain
by Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock - 163-164 Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
by Henry Mitchell - 164-166 Land and Security in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
by Blessing-Miles Tendi - 166-167 The Politics of Land and Natural Resources in Madagascar
by Carl Death - 167-169 A History of Conservation in Botswana’s Okavango Delta
by Catie Gressier - 169-171 Five Centuries of South African Popular History
by Diana Jeater - 171-172 The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama
by Justine McConnell - 173-174 Mission Station Christianity in 19th-Century South Africa
by Emily J. Manktelow
November 2015, Volume 41, Issue 6
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1147-1150 Editorial
by Dennis Walder - 1151-1165 The Death that Dare(d) Not Speak its Name: The Killing of Sister Aidan Quinlan in the East London Riots of 1952
by Mignonne Breier - 1167-1180 ‘Equality of Rights for Every Civilised Man South of the Zambezi’: Electoral Engineering in Southern Rhodesia, 1957–65
by Jon Fraenkel - 1181-1198 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
by Franziska Rueedi - 1199-1217 Governance in Public–Private Partnerships in South Africa: Some Lessons from the Gautrain
by Madeleine C. Fombad - 1219-1238 Land for Housing: A Political Resource – Reflections from Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas
by Davison Muchadenyika - 1239-1254 The Pre-history of South African ‘Neo-Liberalism’: The Rise and Fall of Co-operative Farming on the Highveld
by Faeeza Ballim - 1255-1277 ‘Does the Daily Paper rule Britannia’: British Press Coverage of a Malawi Youth League Demonstration in Blantyre, Nyasaland, in January 1960
by Rosalind Coffey - 1279-1300 The Intimate Politics of the Education Market: High-Stakes Schooling and the Making of Kinship in Umlazi Township, South Africa
by Mark Hunter - 1301-1314 Donor Funding to Community Radio Stations in Malawi and its Impact on their Performance
by Peter Mhagama - 1315-1329 When the War De-Professionalises Soldiers: Wartime Stories in Exile
by Godfrey Maringira - 1331-1347 What ‘Other Devils’? The Texts of Sol T. Plaatje’s Mhudi Revisited
by Brian Willan - 1349-1358 HIV/AIDS and Silence in South Africa
by Jenny Doubt - 1359-1360 Popular Theories of AIDS in South Africa’s Townships
by Anthony Simpson - 1360-1362 Gay Rights in Post-Apartheid Namibia
by Ashley Currier - 1362-1363 Agency, Citizenship and Resistance in Africa
by Emma Hunter - 1364-1366 National Human Rights Institutions in Global Perspectives
by Catherine Albertyn
September 2015, Volume 41, Issue 5
- 1-1 Corrigendum: Fragments Of The Past: Homeland Politics And The South African Transition, 1990 – 2014
by Jason Robinson - 937-952 Homelands as Frontiers: Apartheid's Loose Ends – An Introduction
by Steffen Jensen & Olaf Zenker - 953-967 Fragments of the Past: Homeland Politics and the South African Transition, 1990–2014
by Jason Robinson - 969-989 Material Remains: Artifice versus Artefact(s) in the Archive of Bantustan Rule
by Shireen Ally - 991-1004 This House Is Not My Own …! Temporalities in a South African Homeland
by Steffen Jensen - 1005-1017 Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa
by Hylton White - 1019-1034 South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele
by Olaf Zenker - 1035-1052 ‘Women Use their Strength in the House’: Savings Clubs in an Mpumalanga Village
by Deborah James - 1053-1066 Moralising Magic? A Brief History of Football Potions in a South African Homeland Area, 1958 – 2010
by Isak Niehaus - 1067-1081 City Slums, Rural Homesteads: Migrant Culture, Displaced Urbanism and the Citizenship of the Serviced House
by Leslie Bank - 1083-1097 ‘Keeping Land for Their Children’: Generation, Migration and Land in South Africa’s Transkei
by Derick A. Fay - 1099-1101 Tributes to Terence Ranger: Introduction
by Jocelyn Alexander & JoAnn McGregor - 1102-1106 Terence Ranger: African Historian and Activist
by John McCracken - 1106-1108 Terence Ranger at the University of Cape Town
by Patrick Harries - 1108-1115 Terence Ranger as Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford
by William Beinart - 1115-1122 Doing Zimbabwean History with Terence Ranger: A Personal Note
by Gerald Chikozho Mazarire - 1122-1125 Terence Ranger’s Return to the University of Zimbabwe in the Late 1990s
by Brian Raftopoulos - 1125-1127 A Memorial from a Sparring Partner?
by Richard Werbner - 1128-1131 A Reflection on Epistemology and Ideas about the Spirit in Terence Ranger’s Work
by Diana Jeater - 1133-1136 The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History
by Shula Marks - 1136-1138 The White Man’s World (Memories of Empire)
by Alastair Niven - 1138-1140 Conditional Tense: After the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Dirk Klopper - 1140-1141 The Golden Fleece of the Cape: Capitalist Expansion and Labour Relations in the Periphery of Transnational Wool Production, c.1860–1950
by Lance van Sittert - 1141-1143 Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
by Stephen J. Pyne - 1145-1145 Corrigendum: Contesting the Past in Angolan Politics
by Justin Pearce
July 2015, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 703-705 Editorial
by Anthony Simpson - 707-714 Science and Scandal in South Africa: Introduction
by Rebecca Hodes & Lyn Schumaker - 715-733 Kink and the Colony: Sexual Deviance in the Medical History of South Africa, c. 1893–1939
by Rebecca Hodes - 735-752 ‘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
by Susanne M. Klausen & Julie Parle - 753-771 Jackal Narratives: Predator Control and Contested Ecologies in the Karoo, South Africa
by Nicoli Nattrass & Beatrice Conradie - 773-796 From ‘Dark Country’ to ‘Dark Continent’: AIDS, ‘Race’, and Medical Research in the South African Medical Journal, 1980–1995
by Carla Tsampiras - 797-813 Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a Social and Economic Resource among Youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape
by Beth Vale & Mildred Thabeng - 815-833 The Biometric Imaginary: Bureaucratic Technopolitics in Post-Apartheid Welfare
by Kevin P. Donovan - 835-852 2002, Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the ‘New Angola’
by Jon Schubert - 853-867 Ovimbundu Identity Attributions in Post-War Angola
by Vasco Martins - 869-885 ‘It Will Be Our Time To Eat’: Former Renamo Combatants and Big-Man Dynamics in Central Mozambique
by Nikkie Wiegink - 887-904 Civil Society in Southern Africa – Transformers from Below?
by Tim Zajontz & Anthony Leysens - 905-923 Volume, Power, Originality: Reassessing the Complexities of Soweto Poetry
by Tom Penfold - 925-930 South Africa Between the Past and the Future
by Allison Drew - 931-932 Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Jason Robinson - 932-933 Are Trout South African? Stories of Fish, People and Places
by C.J. Driver - 934-934 San Rock Art
by Michael Wessels - 934-935 Ingrid Jonker: Poet under Apartheid
by Kobus Moolman
May 2015, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 431-435 Rethinking Empire in Southern Africa
by Dag Henrichsen & Giorgio Miescher & Ciraj Rassool & Lorena Rizzo - 437-450 Empire and Nation
by Premesh Lalu - 451-465 Air Power in South Africa, 1914–1939
by Tilman Dedering - 467-483 Nature, War and Development: South Africa's Caprivi Strip, 1960–1980
by Luregn Lenggenhager - 485-504 An Empire of Rivers: The Scheme to Flood the Kalahari, 1919–1945
by Meredith McKittrick - 505-518 Forging the Fifth Province
by Jeremy Silvester - 519-539 The Rise of the Compound–Hostel–Location Assemblage as Infrastructure of South African Colonial Power: The Case of Walvis Bay 1915–1960
by Andrew Byerley - 541-560 Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam
by Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman - 561-580 The NE 51 Series Frontier: The Grand Narrative of Apartheid Planning and the Small Town
by Giorgio Miescher - 581-597 Regional and Local Dynamics in the Shaping of the Centre for African Studies in Maputo, 1976–1986
by Carlos Fernandes - 599-616 The Empire Writes Back: African Challenges to the Brutish (South African) Empire in the Early 20th Century
by Peter Limb - 617-634 The Graves of Dimbaza and the Empire of Liberation
by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick & Gary Minkley - 635-652 Personal Circuits: Official Tours and South Africa's Colony
by Marion Wallace - 653-670 Re-storing the Skeletons of Empire: Return, Reburial and Rehumanisation in Southern Africa
by Ciraj Rassool - 671-685 Hunting for Museums
by Leslie Witz - 687-697 Secrets and Lives: South African Political Biography
by Tom Lodge - 699-700 A World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa
by Peter D. McDonald - 700-702 Press Freedom in Africa: Comparative Perspectives
by Lesley Cowling
March 2015, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 215-218 Editorial
by Diana Jeater - 219-235 ‘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
by Francis Dube - 237-253 Developmentalist Attitudes and Old Habits: Portuguese Labour Policies, South African Rivalry, and Flight in Southern Angola, 1945–1974
by Alexander Keese - 255-272 Chiefly Power in a Frontline State: Kgosi Linchwe II, the Bakgatla and Botswana in the South African Liberation Struggle, 1948–1994
by Louisa Cantwell - 273-297 Bantu Authorities and Betterment in Natal: The Ambiguous Responses of Chiefs and Regents, 1955–1970
by Jill E. Kelly - 299-314 Principals, Chiefs and School Committees: The Localisation of Rural School Administration in Lebowa, 1972–1990
by Laura Phillips - 315-334 The Malicious Football Game: Urban Interactions and Power Relations in Lourenço Marques, Capital of Colonial Mozambique
by Nuno Domingos - 335-352 A Voortrekker Memorial in Revolutionary Maputo
by David Morton - 353-366 Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the Imagination of a New South Africa
by Crain Soudien - 367-387 A ‘Political War of Words and Bullets’: Defining and Defying Sides of Struggle for Housing in Crossroads, South Africa
by Koni Benson - 389-404 The Corporate Social Responsibility Projects of the Oil Companies in Angola: Anecdotal Fact or Significant New Trend in Public Health Development Intervention?
by Virginie Tallio - 405-417 Inside the Government, but Outside the Law: Residents' Committees, Public Authority and Twilight Governance in Post-War Angola
by Sylvia Croese - 419-423 Controversy, Conflict and Struggle in South Africa
by Lawrence Hamilton - 425-429 Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers
by Peter Kallaway - 427-428 Mandela's Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
by Randolph Vigne - 428-429 Olive Schreiner
by Heather Hughes - 430-430 Corrigendum
by The Editors
January 2015, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-8 Editorial
by Lyn Schumaker - 9-28 The Finance–Mining Nexus in South Africa: How Mining Companies Use the South African Equity Market to Speculate
by Ewa Karwowski - 29-45 Rain and Copper: The Evolution of a Fish Marketing Channel in a Rapidly Changing Region of Southern Africa
by James G. Abbott & Clinton J. Hay & Tor F. Næsje & Denis Tweddle & Ben C.W. van der Waal - 47-61 Suffering and Protest in Rhodesian Prisons During the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle
by Munyaradzi Bryn Munochiveyi - 63-81 ‘Love I Cannot Begin to Explain’: The Politics of Reproduction in the ANC in Exile, 1976–1990
by Rachel Sandwell - 83-102 The Politics of Remembering and Commemorating Atrocity in South Africa: The Bhisho Massacre and its Aftermath, 1992–2012
by Stephanie Victor - 103-119 Contesting the Past in Angolan Politics
by Justin Pearce - 121-140 Stepchildren of Liberation: South African Farm Workers' Elusive Rights to Organise and Bargain Collectively
by Simon Pahle - 141-158 ‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg
by Khangelani Moyo & Erma Cossa - 159-171 Soweto's Islands of Learning: Morris Isaacson and Orlando High Schools Under Bantu Education, 1958–1975
by Clive Glaser - 173-186 Black Consciousness's Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the Seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s
by Anne Heffernan - 187-206 Forging a New South Africa: Plagiarism, Ventriloquism and the ‘Black Voice’ in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull
by Kate Highman - 207-208 African Intellectuals and Decolonization
by Akin Adesokan - 208-210 War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State
by Susan Levine - 210-211 Invisible Agents: Spirits in Central African History
by Reuben Loffman - 211-214 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
by Tara Weinberg
November 2014, Volume 40, Issue 6
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1131-1137 Editorial
by Diana Jeater - 1139-1157 Popular Community in 18th-Century Southern Africa: Family, Fellowship, Alternative Networks, and Mutual Aid at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795
by Nicole Ulrich - 1159-1176 Gungubele and the Tambookie Location 1853–1877: End of a Colonial Experiment
by Anne Kelk Mager - 1177-1191 Civilising the Cape: Public Art Exhibitions and Cape Visual Culture, 1851–1910
by Anna Tietze & Nicholas Botha - 1193-1214 The Role of Alien Trees in South African Forestry and Conservation: Early 20th-Century Research and Debate on Climate Change, Soil Erosion and Hydrology
by Harald Witt - 1215-1234 Environmental Movements, Climate Change, and Consumption in South Africa
by Carl Death - 1235-1250 Autobiography, History, Memory and Nostalgia in Denis Beckett's Radical Middle and Hugh Lewin's Stones Against the Mirror
by Isaac Ndlovu - 1251-1269 The Origins and Functions of Demonisation Discourses in Britain–Zimbabwe Relations (2000–)
by Blessing-Miles Tendi - 1271-1274 Introduction: Mobile Soldiers and the Un-National Liberation of Southern Africa
by Luise White & Miles Larmer - 1275-1287 The Relationship Between UNITA and SWAPO: Allies and Adversaries
by Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha - 1289-1303 Students, ZAPU, and Special Branch in Francistown, 1964–1972
by Luise White - 1305-1324 Nationalism's Exile: Godfrey Nangonya and SWAPO's Sacrifice in Southern Angola
by Patricia Hayes - 1325-1342 Training and Deployment at Novo Catengue and the Diaries of Jack Simons, 1977–1979
by Steve Davis - 1343-1361 Counter-Revolutionary Warfare: the Soweto Intelligence Unit and Southern Itineraries
by Nicky Rousseau - 1363-1368 South Africa's War, and the Cuban Military, in Angola
by Chris Saunders - 1369-1370 As Guerras de Libertação e os Sonhos Coloniais. Alianças Secretas, Mapas Imaginados
by Stephen Henighan - 1370-1372 Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa
by Lindelwa Dalamba - 1372-1374 Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing, and Building Johannesburg
by Russell West-Pavlov - 1374-1375 Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957–67
by Chenjerai Hove - 1377-1378 Obituary: Colin Murray
by William Beinart
September 2014, Volume 40, Issue 5
- 895-905 Introduction: Narratives of Nationhood
by Miles Larmer & Marja Hinfelaar & Bizeck J. Phiri & Lyn Schumaker & Morris Szeftel - 907-924 ‘What Then Happened To Our Eden?’: The Long History of Lozi Secessionism, 1890–2013
by Jack Hogan - 925-941 ‘We Have Killed This Animal Together, May I Also Have a Share?’1 Local–National Political Dynamics in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1950s–1970s
by Iva Peša - 943-959 The University Of Zambia and the Liberation of Southern Africa, 1966–90
by Hugh Macmillan - 961-979 The Colour of Class Revisited: Four Decades of Postcolonialism in Zambia
by Michael Burawoy - 981-998 ‘Women Can Do What Men Can Do’: The Causes and Consequences of Growing Flexibility in Gender Divisions of Labour in Kitwe, Zambia
by Alice Evans - 999-1013 ‘Solwezi Mabanga’: Ambivalent Developments on Zambia's New Mining Frontier
by Rohit Negi - 1015-1030 Discordance Through Consensus: Unintended Consequences of the Quest for Consensuality in Zambian Religious Life
by Thomas G. Kirsch - 1031-1045 The Changing Face of Zambia's Christianity and its Implications for the Public Sphere: A Case Study of Bauleni Township, Lusaka
by Austin Cheyeka & Marja Hinfelaar & Bernhard Udelhoven - 1047-1064 Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme
by Julia Tischler - 1065-1089 Narratives of Nationhood and HIV/AIDS: Reflections on Multidisciplinary Research on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Zambia over the Last 30 Years
by Anthony Simpson & Virginia Bond - 1091-1108 Education and the Economy: Achievements and Shortfalls in Independent Zambia, 1964–2014
by Michelle Mwalimu - 1109-1123 Reimagining South African Literature
by Duncan Brown - 1125-1127 Models of Urban Migration
by Gina Porter - 1127-1128 Living on the Edge
by Lotte Hughes - 1128-1130 Dignity and Constitutional Transformation
by Catherine Albertyn
July 2014, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 651-654 Editorial
by Donal Lowry - 655-665 Critical Reflections on South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act and its Legacies: Introduction
by Cherryl Walker - 667-688 The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913
by William Beinart & Peter Delius - 689-705 ‘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
by Sandra Swart - 707-725 Changing Patterns of Rural Land Use and Land Cover in South Africa and their Implications for Land Reform
by M. Timm Hoffman - 727-744 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
by Luvuyo Wotshela - 745-760 A Tangled Past: Land Settlement, Removals and Restitution in Letaba District, 1900–2013
by Michelle Hay - 761-779 Denying Ownership and Equal Citizenship: Continuities in the State's Use of Law and ‘Custom’, 1913–2013
by Aninka Claassens - 781-800 Literacy at South African Mission Stations
by Johan Fourie & Robert Ross & Russel Viljoen - 801-818 An Imperial Past in Ruins: Joseph Denfield's Photographs of East London, 1960–1965
by Phindezwa Mnyaka - 819-838 From Colonial Administration to Development Funding: Characterisations of SACU as a Governance Mechanism
by Richard Gibb & Karen Treasure - 839-859 The Influence of the Social Context on South African Voters
by Collette Schulz-Herzenberg - 861-882 Youth Politics: Waiting and Envy in a South African Informal Settlement
by Hannah Dawson - 883-884 Xhosa History Preserved
by Mbongiseni Buthelezi - 884-886 Constructing the ‘new’ national culture?
by Gerald Groenewald - 886-888 Did Zimbabweans Take their Land Back?
by Tinashe Nyamunda - 889-891 Variants of Islam
by Peter Morey - 891-893 Decoloniality and Development
by James Graham
May 2014, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 433-442 Editorial
by Lyn Schumaker - 443-458 Operation Dongosolo and the Geographies of Urban Poverty in Malawi
by Liam Riley - 459-477 The Politics of Culture and the Transient Culture of Bojale: Bakgatla-Baga-Kgafela Women's Initiation in Botswana
by Keletso Gaone Setlhabi - 479-498 Articulating Regional and Ethnic Dissent? Bulawayo's Politicians and their Campaigns to Legalise Shebeens: 1980–2012
by Busani Mpofu - 499-519 The Politics of the Parallel Archive: Digital Imperialism and the Future of Record-Keeping in the Age of Digital Reproduction
by Keith Breckenridge - 521-538 Negotiating and Contesting Gendered and Sexual Identities in the Zimbabwean Diaspora
by Moreblessing Tandeka Tinarwo & Dominic Pasura