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Papers

(The median citation count of South African Historical Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe	3
Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 .	3
Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960–1984	2
The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past	2
Worlds Apart: The 1984 Suspension of the South African and Namibian White Churches from the Lutheran World Federation	1
‘Filthiest Gangs of Thugs’: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Nazism Perceptions in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s to 1940s	1
The Expansion of African Private Land Ownership in Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 1994–2024	1
Historical Dictionary of South Africa Historical Dictionary of South Africa . By CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS and PETER LIMB. Third edition.La	1
The Cost of Union: Smuts and the Price for the Rhodesian ‘Province’	1
The Mass Action Campaign of 1992: The Ciskei Crisis and the African National Congress in Transition	1
South African Women and the Politics of Peace in the 1950s	1
The Production of Space at Pieter Roos Park: Public Space as a Lens into Johannesburg’s Changing Public Culture 1968–2019	1
The Disappearance of the Msane Chiefdom, 1820s to 1890s	1
For What It’s Worth: Reflections on Stepping Aside as Editor	1
‘They Have Indeed Made History’: Reflections for the 75th Issue of the South African Historical Journal	1
The Tribal Conciliar Experiment and Marginalisation of Local Public Opinion in Botswana, 1948–1957	1
Vredeskoppie and the Afrikaner Nationalist Myth of Benevolent Paternalism	0
Counterinsurgency’s Undead Prose: A Reply to Janet Cherry’s Review of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa	0
Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s	0
The Splintering of South African Evangelicalism during the Last Decade of Apartheid	0
When South Africa Tried to Make Zimbabwe Its Fifth Province: Settler Colonial Interests and Legacies of the 1922 Rhodesian Referendum	0
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures	0
Teaching Texts	0
Camel Imports and Transport Fantasies in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915	0
‘The Great Trek Towards Nazism’: Anti-Fascism and the Radical Left in South Africa During the Early Apartheid Era	0

Capricious Patronage and Captive Land: A Socio-political History of Resettlement and Change in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1960 to 2005	0
The Spirit of Ulster in the Cape of Good Hope: The South African Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1910–1914	0
Book Forum	0
Colonial Intrusion and the Dispute over Leadership of the Nzama People in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 1928	0
Frustrated Ambitions: Teacher Associations and Segregated Schooling in the Transvaal, c.1920–1956	0
‘Open Fascism Has Appeared on this Continent’: South Africa’s Independent Press and Anti-Fascism, 1937–1947	0
‘A Fictitious Referendum and a European Affair’: African Perspectives of the 1922 Referendum and the 1923 Responsible Government in Southern Rhodesia	0
Chasing a Mirage? A Quest for Food Security through Commercial Farming Schemes in the Pandamatenga Region of Botswana, 1983–2000	0
‘We Must Analyse Where Our National Interest Lies and not Worry too Much about Other People’s Domestic Policies’: Richard M. Nixon and Apartheid South Africa in the Early 1970s	0
Undoing the Central African Federation: Early Zambian Maneuverings	0
Pan-Africanism versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950–1963	0
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire	0
To Write as a Boxer. Disability and Resignification in the Text. A South African Boxer in Britain *To Write as a Boxer. Disability and Resignification in the Text. A So*	0
Teaching and Researching the World in South Africa	0
The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa. I Look Back 30 Years *The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa. I Look Back 30 Years*	0
Phylloxera and the Development of Rural Financial Networks in the Cape Colony	0
Revisioning the Ethnographic Photograph	0
This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt	0
Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism and Race	0
A Reluctant Rebel: John Msikinya and Secession at Aliwal North	0
Anzelm Dzwonkowski’s Short Description of the Dutch Cape Colony (1789, 1793)	0
Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 1971	0
The Lessons of Propaganda: The Role of the Film Kalushi in (Re)Writing the Legacy of Solomon Mahlangu	0
‘A sin against our civilisation’: South Africa’s 1927 Immorality Act and the Criminalisation of Interracial Love, 1920–1948	0
Crime behind the Wire: South African Prisoners in Second World War Italy and Germany	0
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi	0
Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race	0
The ANC Spy Bible: Surviving across Enemy Lines. By MOE SHAIK The ANC Spy Bible. Surviving across Enemy Lines . By MOE SHAIK. Cape Tow	0
On Life History and Network Analysis: A Global Environmental Historian in South Africa	0
International Beef Packing in the Age of Empire: LEMCO in South West Africa, 1906– c .1940	0
Sixty Years Since Zambia’s Independence: Revisiting Scholarship on the Struggle Against Colonialism	0
‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s	0
Interrogating the South African Garrison State (1930s–1940s): Oswald Pirow and Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr	0
Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique	0
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short	0
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles	0
A Transnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho–South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994	0
A Life in Limbo: Otto von Strahl’s Activities for and against Germany in the Union of South Africa	0
National Socialism, Colonialism and Antifascist Memory Politics in Postwar Dutch–South African Exchanges	0
‘Think More Clearly than the State Allows’: Rick Turner’s Challenge to the Present	0
Pitch Battles: Sports, Racism and Resistance	0
The Bhisho March and Massacre of September 1992: The ‘Leipzig Option’ and the Meanings of Mass Action in the South African Transition	0
Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984)	0
Beyond FearBeyond Fear. By Ebrahim Ebrahim. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022. xi + 300 pp. ISBN 978 1 4314 3232 5.	0
The Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–1990) The Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–1990)	0
The Impact of the Anglo–Boer War on Russian Marxists before the October Revolution	0
Prelude to Unilateralism: Foreclosed Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 1950	0
‘Waar is beter dorp in Zuid Africa dan Stellenbos?’: What the Stellenbosch-Drakenstein Tax Censuses Reveal	0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa *Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa* . By Noah Ta	0
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties	0

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Black Politician *Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Black Politician* . By Marti	0
Colonisation and Smallpox Response in the South-Western Transkei, 1878–1896	0
‘The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance, and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate	0
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War In Africa: A Bridge Between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988–1994 US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold	0
History Uploaded: Digital Archives After Thirty Years of Democracy	0
Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho	0
The Klip River Affair in Zulu Policy, 1846–1847	0
Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola	0
The Legal and Social Context of Urban Movement, Housing, and Coping Mechanisms through Inheritance Practices amongst Women from Phokeng, Gugulethu, and Fingo Village	0
What Can We Learn from Mrs. Ples? – The 75^th Anniversary of a Fossil	0
Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism	0
Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy *Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in t*	0
Made in Africa: Tapestry and the Topography of Swedish Philanthropy in Southern Africa	0
German ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Internment Camps in South Africa in the Second World War	0
Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala	0
Eskom and the Electricity Act 42 of 1922	0
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee	0
A Principled Pragmatism: Gerald R. Ford and Apartheid South Africa	0
Christopher Bethell, Charles Warren and the Colonisation of the Southern Batswana	0
75 Not Out: Reflections	0
Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona . By ZOE R. GROVES. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan,	0
Experiment at KwaPoyinandi: African Engagement with the Local Health Commission of the Edendale and District Public Health Area, 1942–c.1957	0
Coffee House Conversations: Historians on the Current Moment	0
White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of their Own White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of their Own . By DUNCAN MON	0
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place	0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty	0
A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–2012	0
The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Development	0
‘With the Abyssinian Armies, in Defence of Africa’s Only Native State’: Varieties of South African Anti-Fascism, 1930s–1960s	0
Indigenous Resurgence in the Cape: The Intellectual Roots and Political Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism	0
Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943–1996	0
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa *The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa*	0
The Internal Settlement and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in Patriotic Front Propaganda	0
‘Gangsters by the Bioscope’: South African Indian Cinemas as Spaces of Becoming during Early Apartheid	0
‘Autonomy for Our Economy’: A Review of the Responsible Government Status and Economic Interest Groups in Southern Rhodesia, 1922 to the Second World War	0
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa	0
Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize in 2022: Financial Mobilisation for Economic Survival: The Rhodesian Insurance Industry During UDI, 1965–1979	0
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester	0
South Africa’s Century of Cannabis Politics, 1922–2022	0
Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies	0
From Sharpeville to Rivonia, 1959–1964. A Personal View of Resistance in South Africa from the Letters of Clare & James Currey	0
Book Forum	0
Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle	0
Adult Children of Bondage: Recaptured African Childhoods and Labour at the Cape Colony, 1807–1834	0
Black Gods and Black Messiahs — Reading Religion in the Wake of Blackness	0
From Plough to Entrepreneurship: A History of African Entrepreneurs in Evaton 1905–1960s	0
Insidious Dispossession and Defence of Land Ownership – Tsolo Farms, 1880–1917	0
Smuts and Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa	0
South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich’s International Enemies	0
No Asylum from Her Majesty: The British FCO and Complicity with Apartheid	0
Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa	0
The Dawn of South African–Portuguese Cooperation: From 1950 to 1961	0
Three Wise Monkeys	0
The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 1976	0
Announcement of SAHJ Article Prize Winner - Volume 75 (2023)	0
Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa	0
Domestic Space, Intimate Surprises: The Bonds and Bondage of Enslaved, Khoisan, and Settler Women in the 1825 Koue Bokkeveld Revolt	0
The Imperialist Dream of João Albasini, a Portuguese Trader in South-East Africa, 1847–1870	0
Segregation in the Reserves: The Winter Family in Sekhukhuneland 1913–1948	0
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation	0
Boxing in Cape Town and Surrounds, 1932–1935	0
Commerce As Politics: The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence	0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Flags, Stamps and Coats of Arms: Symbols and the Making of Identity in Southern Rhodesia	0
Materials Necessary for the Formation of a Correct Knowledge of the History of Colonialism in South Africa? Reassessing the Historical Productions of Donald Moodie and Their Implications	0
Reconstructing a Socio-Political Narrative of High School Athletics in the Oppressed Communities of the Greater Cape Peninsula, South Africa, 1973–1994	0
‘The Involvement of the State Had to Be a Secret’: The Impact of Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail Exposés on the Apartheid Government and its Conservative Apologists in the United States	0
Shifting Trends in Nursing Education in High Commission Territories: The Case of Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1948–1967	0
Positioning in Turbulent Times: Ottoman Intellectuals and the South African War (1899–1902)	0
Migrant Labour after apartheid: The Inside Story *Migrant Labour after apartheid: The Inside Story* . Edited by Leslie J. Bank, Dorrit P	0
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence	0
The Boipatong Massacre of 1992: Traces, Silences, and Truth(s)	0
The land is ours - South Africa's first black lawyers and the birth of constitutionalism. TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI. Penguin Books, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN: 978 1 77609 285 7. Lawfare - Judging politics in South	0
Can Themba and the Elusive Africa! Archive	0
Ohm Krüger: Context, Appropriation and Irony	0
The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe . By SIMUKA	0
White Settlers’ Anti-Fascist and Anti-Colonial Movements in Angola (1930–1945)	0
Presidential Address: Reflecting on New and Lingering Travails in Southern African Historical Studies.	0
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space : Genealogies, Discourses, an	0
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid	0