South African Historical Journal

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past2
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe2
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 . 2
The Disappearance of the Msane Chiefdom, 1820s to 1890s1
Black Judges in South Africa’s Legal Empire1
Collective Land-Buying Syndicates, Pixley ka Seme, and the Native Farmers Association in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa1
The Mass Action Campaign of 1992: The Ciskei Crisis and the African National Congress in Transition1
Always Lifting as She Climbs: Joyce Piliso-Seroke’s Activism and Achievements1
South African Women and the Politics of Peace in the 1950s1
30 Years of Democracy: 1994–2024 Roundtable1
For What It’s Worth: Reflections on Stepping Aside as Editor1
‘Filthiest Gangs of Thugs’: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Nazism Perceptions in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s to 1940s1
The Expansion of African Private Land Ownership in Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 1994–20241
The Emergence of an Afrikaans-Medium Faculty of Medicine at Stellenbosch University1
Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960–19841
‘They Have Indeed Made History’: Reflections for the 75th Issue of the South African Historical Journal1
Eskom and the Electricity Act 42 of 19220
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty0
Worlds Apart: The 1984 Suspension of the South African and Namibian White Churches from the Lutheran World Federation0
A Reluctant Rebel: John Msikinya and Secession at Aliwal North0
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi0
Crafting Uneven Waterscapes: The Well, the Tank, and the Racialised Contestation of Early Water Infrastructure in Colonial Durban, 1854–18980
History Uploaded: Digital Archives After Thirty Years of Democracy0
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties0
Chasing a Mirage? A Quest for Food Security through Commercial Farming Schemes in the Pandamatenga Region of Botswana, 1983–20000
The Lessons of Propaganda: The Role of the Film Kalushi in (Re)Writing the Legacy of Solomon Mahlangu0
When South Africa Tried to Make Zimbabwe Its Fifth Province: Settler Colonial Interests and Legacies of the 1922 Rhodesian Referendum0
The Dawn of South African–Portuguese Cooperation: From 1950 to 19610
The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 19760
Prelude to Unilateralism: Foreclosed Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 19500
Counterinsurgency’s Undead Prose: A Reply to Janet Cherry’s Review of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa0
Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola0
White Settlers’ Anti-Fascist and Anti-Colonial Movements in Angola (1930–1945)0
My Own Liberator: A Memoir; All Rise: A Judicial Memoir0
Boxing in Cape Town and Surrounds, 1932–19350
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
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid0
A New History of Formal Schooling in South Africa 1658–1910: An Education of Contradictions0
Undoing the Central African Federation: Early Zambian Maneuverings0
Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique0
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
‘The Other Hospital Staff’: Tracing the History of an Eastern Cape Mission Hospital’s General Workers, Late 1930s to the Early 1970s0
‘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 States0
Domestic Space, Intimate Surprises: The Bonds and Bondage of Enslaved, Khoisan, and Settler Women in the 1825 Koue Bokkeveld Revolt0
Shifting Trends in Nursing Education in High Commission Territories: The Case of Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1948–19670
The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Development0
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short0
‘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 1970s0
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 MON0
The Legal and Social Context of Urban Movement, Housing, and Coping Mechanisms through Inheritance Practices amongst Women from Phokeng, Gugulethu, and Fingo Village0
Sixty Years Since Zambia’s Independence: Revisiting Scholarship on the Struggle Against Colonialism0
Colonial Intrusion and the Dispute over Leadership of the Nzama People in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 19280
The Klip River Affair in Zulu Policy, 1846–18470
Segregation in the Reserves: The Winter Family in Sekhukhuneland 1913–19480
Colonisation and Smallpox Response in the South-Western Transkei, 1878–18960
Flags, Stamps and Coats of Arms: Symbols and the Making of Identity in Southern Rhodesia0
Weakening the Enemy by Targeting Its Alliances: Revolutionary Public Diplomacy and the Making of Solidarity with the Liberation of Lusophone Africa in the United Kingdom0
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid0
Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II and President Bill Clinton’s State Visits to Botswana, 1979–1998: High-Profile Public Diplomacy in a Small African State0
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation0
Christopher Bethell, Charles Warren and the Colonisation of the Southern Batswana0
Interrogating the South African Garrison State (1930s–1940s): Oswald Pirow and Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr0
Frustrated Ambitions: Teacher Associations and Segregated Schooling in the Transvaal, c.1920–19560
The Cost of Union: Smuts and the Price for the Rhodesian ‘Province’0
‘With the Abyssinian Armies, in Defence of Africa’s Only Native State’: Varieties of South African Anti-Fascism, 1930s–1960s0
The Internal Settlement and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in Patriotic Front Propaganda0
 ‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s0
Anzelm Dzwonkowski’s Short Description of the Dutch Cape Colony (1789, 1793)0
Made in Africa: Tapestry and the Topography of Swedish Philanthropy in Southern Africa0
Presidential Address: Reflecting on New and Lingering Travails in Southern African Historical Studies.0
Black Gods and Black Messiahs — Reading Religion in the Wake of Blackness0
Phylloxera and the Development of Rural Financial Networks in the Cape Colony0
Smuts and Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa0
‘Gangsters by the Bioscope’: South African Indian Cinemas as Spaces of Becoming during Early Apartheid0
Indigenous Resurgence in the Cape: The Intellectual Roots and Political Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism0
Introduction: Dialogues with Lusophone Africa, Transnational Solidarity, and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1961–19750
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
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire0
Teaching Texts0
‘Autonomy for Our Economy’: A Review of the Responsible Government Status and Economic Interest Groups in Southern Rhodesia, 1922 to the Second World War0
Party Politics and Populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and Political Change, 1955–20140
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–19900
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles0
Morafe: Person, Family and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s–1950s0
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 Implications0
Insidious Dispossession and Defence of Land Ownership – Tsolo Farms, 1880–19170
‘A sin against our civilisation’: South Africa’s 1927 Immorality Act and the Criminalisation of Interracial Love, 1920–19480
South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich’s International Enemies0
The Impact of the Anglo–Boer War on Russian Marxists before the October Revolution0
Reflections 50 Years after the Initial South African Invasion of Angola0
The Re-Emergence of Black Unions in the Western Cape0
British Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa0
The Imperialist Dream of João Albasini, a Portuguese Trader in South-East Africa, 1847–18700
German ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Internment Camps in South Africa in the Second World War0
Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race0
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space : Genealogies, Discourses, an0
Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho0
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House0
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence0
Adult Children of Bondage: Recaptured African Childhoods and Labour at the Cape Colony, 1807–18340
‘Waar is beter dorp in Zuid Africa dan Stellenbos?’: What the Stellenbosch-Drakenstein Tax Censuses Reveal0
Announcement of SAHJ Article Prize Winner - Volume 75 (2023)0
South Africa’s Century of Cannabis Politics, 1922–20220
‘Town Born and Bred’: The Influence of Urban Life on Lilian Ngoyi’s Activism0
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation0
Three Wise Monkeys0
Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field0
Can Themba and the Elusive Africa! Archive0
The Federation, Fiscus, and Failure: The Fiscal Commissions in the Central African Federation, 1952–19630
Crime behind the Wire: South African Prisoners in Second World War Italy and Germany0
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s Historiography: Notes on les deluges0
Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa0
The Production of Space at Pieter Roos Park: Public Space as a Lens into Johannesburg’s Changing Public Culture 1968–20190
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa0
A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–20120
Ismail Mahomed: Liberating the Law0
Book Forum0
The Spirit of Ulster in the Cape of Good Hope: The South African Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1910–19140
Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 19710
Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize in 2022: Financial Mobilisation for Economic Survival: The Rhodesian Insurance Industry During UDI, 1965–19790
Beyond FearBeyond Fear. By Ebrahim Ebrahim. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022. xi + 300 pp. ISBN 978 1 4314 3232 5.0
‘Open Fascism Has Appeared on this Continent’: South Africa’s Independent Press and Anti-Fascism, 1937–19470
The Spider in Hitler’s South African Web: Luitpold Werz’s Attempts to Create a Fifth Column in South Africa and Topple Jan Smuts’ Government – and His Astonishing Career in Post-War Germany0
The Bhisho March and Massacre of September 1992: The ‘Leipzig Option’ and the Meanings of Mass Action in the South African Transition0
‘Think More Clearly than the State Allows’: Rick Turner’s Challenge to the Present0
South African Women and Black Internationalism0
Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona . By ZOE R. GROVES. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan, 0
‘A Fictitious Referendum and a European Affair’: African Perspectives of the 1922 Referendum and the 1923 Responsible Government in Southern Rhodesia0
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–19790
What Can We Learn from Mrs. Ples? – The 75th Anniversary of a Fossil0
This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt0
Positioning in Turbulent Times: Ottoman Intellectuals and the South African War (1899–1902)0
Organising Global Activism against Portuguese Colonialism: The Conferences of Driebergen, Schaloen, and Santpoort, 1970–19730
Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa0
The Evolution of an Anti-Colonialist: Goler T. Butcher and Legal-Professional Activism against Portuguese Colonialism in Africa0
75 Not Out: Reflections0
Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War0
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 SIMUKA0
Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism0
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures0
‘The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance, and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate0
Revisioning the Ethnographic Photograph0
Pan-Africanism versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950–19630
The Boipatong Massacre of 1992: Traces, Silences, and Truth(s)0
Book Forum0
From Plough to Entrepreneurship: A History of African Entrepreneurs in Evaton 1905–1960s0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa . By Noah Ta0
Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala0
Commerce As Politics: The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence0
The Founding of Port Natal0
Camel Imports and Transport Fantasies in German Southwest Africa, 1884–19150
Teaching and Researching the World in South Africa0
Experiment at KwaPoyinandi: African Engagement with the Local Health Commission of the Edendale and District Public Health Area, 1942–c.19570
Gendered Histories: The Past, the Present, and Power in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home0
Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism and Race0
Documenting South African Exile in the Polish People’s Republic in the 1980s: Patrick Mabinda, Beverley Marcus, and the Lodz Film School0
National Socialism, Colonialism and Antifascist Memory Politics in Postwar Dutch–South African Exchanges0
On Life History and Network Analysis: A Global Environmental Historian in South Africa0
‘The War Broke Out and I Broke Down’: Expectations and Aspirations in Forging Solidarity between Dutch Activists and Southern African Liberation Leaders0
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress0
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