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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past2
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
For What It’s Worth: Reflections on Stepping Aside as Editor1
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
The Emergence of an Afrikaans-Medium Faculty of Medicine at Stellenbosch University1
Black Judges in South Africa’s Legal Empire1
‘Women’s Section, Do Not Make Me Feel Like a Motherless Child!’ Politics, Care, and Welfare in ANC Women’s Experiences of Sweden1
The Expansion of African Private Land Ownership in Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 1994–20241
30 Years of Democracy: 1994–2024 Roundtable1
Collective Land-Buying Syndicates, Pixley ka Seme, and the Native Farmers Association in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa1
‘They Have Indeed Made History’: Reflections for the 75th Issue of the South African Historical Journal1
South African Women and the Politics of Peace in the 1950s1
Worlds Apart: The 1984 Suspension of the South African and Namibian White Churches from the Lutheran World Federation0
Ismail Mahomed: Liberating the Law0
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
Crafting Uneven Waterscapes: The Well, the Tank, and the Racialised Contestation of Early Water Infrastructure in Colonial Durban, 1854–18980
Counterinsurgency’s Undead Prose: A Reply to Janet Cherry’s Review of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa0
‘A sin against our civilisation’: South Africa’s 1927 Immorality Act and the Criminalisation of Interracial Love, 1920–19480
Presidential Address: Reflecting on New and Lingering Travails in Southern African Historical Studies.0
The Bhisho March and Massacre of September 1992: The ‘Leipzig Option’ and the Meanings of Mass Action in the South African Transition0
Introduction: Dialogues with Lusophone Africa, Transnational Solidarity, and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1961–19750
Gandhi's African Legacy: Phoenix Settlement 1904 to 2024, A History Through Letters0
Positioning in Turbulent Times: Ottoman Intellectuals and the South African War (1899–1902)0
Unpacking the Complexities of Southern Africa’s Past: My Research Journey and Future Trajectories0
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
Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya0
The Lessons of Propaganda: The Role of the Film Kalushi in (Re)Writing the Legacy of Solomon Mahlangu0
‘Women for Human Rights’: The Black Sash of South Africa, 1955–19950
Smuts and Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa0
‘The Other Hospital Staff’: Tracing the History of an Eastern Cape Mission Hospital’s General Workers, Late 1930s to the Early 1970s0
Colonisation and Smallpox Response in the South-Western Transkei, 1878–18960
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa . By Noah Ta0
Contested Transformation in South African Legal Education: Race, Decolonisation, and the Afterlife of Apartheid0
Women and South Africa’s Liberation Movement: Commemorating 70 Years and More0
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid0
Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa0
Morafe: Person, Family and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s–1950s0
Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola0
Teaching and Researching the World in South Africa0
Revisioning the Ethnographic Photograph0
Faith and Liberation in Tanzania: An Historical Ethnography of Salatiel Ailonga’s Bible0
The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Development0
Reflections on Black Lawyers, the South African Legal Profession, and the Role of US Philanthropy0
Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism and Race0
Chasing a Mirage? A Quest for Food Security through Commercial Farming Schemes in the Pandamatenga Region of Botswana, 1983–20000
German ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Internment Camps in South Africa in the Second World War0
Undoing the Central African Federation: Early Zambian Maneuverings0
Plants, Politics, and Print in South Africa0
Boxing in Cape Town and Surrounds, 1932–19350
‘The War Broke Out and I Broke Down’: Expectations and Aspirations in Forging Solidarity between Dutch Activists and Southern African Liberation Leaders0
Gendered Histories: The Past, the Present, and Power in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home0
‘Down with Racism!’ The MPLA’s Response to Dissidence in the Shadow of Apartheid0
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
South African Women and Black Internationalism0
Colonial Intrusion and the Dispute over Leadership of the Nzama People in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 19280
Anzelm Dzwonkowski’s Short Description of the Dutch Cape Colony (1789, 1793)0
The Boipatong Massacre of 1992: Traces, Silences, and Truth(s)0
Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala0
Beyond FearBeyond Fear. By Ebrahim Ebrahim. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022. xi + 300 pp. ISBN 978 1 4314 3232 5.0
The Impact of Global Advancements in Natural Resource and Environmental Management in Zambia and Its Implications for the Mining Industry (1970s to 1990s)0
Announcement of SAHJ Article Prize Winner – Volume 76 (2024)0
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
British Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa0
The Disappearance of the Msane Chiefdom, 1820s to 1890s0
Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho0
On Life History and Network Analysis: A Global Environmental Historian in South Africa0
Indigenous Resurgence in the Cape: The Intellectual Roots and Political Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism0
Three Wise Monkeys0
‘Gangsters by the Bioscope’: South African Indian Cinemas as Spaces of Becoming during Early Apartheid0
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s Historiography: Notes on les deluges0
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
A Reluctant Rebel: John Msikinya and Secession at Aliwal North0
Segregation in the Reserves: The Winter Family in Sekhukhuneland 1913–19480
‘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
The Spirit of Ulster in the Cape of Good Hope: The South African Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1910–19140
A New History of Formal Schooling in South Africa 1658–1910: An Education of Contradictions0
Frustrated Ambitions: Teacher Associations and Segregated Schooling in the Transvaal, c.1920–19560
UDI at 60: The Rebellion that Refuses to be Forgotten0
The Dawn of South African–Portuguese Cooperation: From 1950 to 19610
The Klip River Affair in Zulu Policy, 1846–18470
Can Themba and the Elusive Africa! Archive0
Black Lawyers in South Africa: Introduction and Reflections on Emerging Research0
History Uploaded: Digital Archives After Thirty Years of Democracy0
The Federation, Fiscus, and Failure: The Fiscal Commissions in the Central African Federation, 1952–19630
Camel Imports and Transport Fantasies in German Southwest Africa, 1884–19150
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
Organising Global Activism against Portuguese Colonialism: The Conferences of Driebergen, Schaloen, and Santpoort, 1970–19730
Made in Africa: Tapestry and the Topography of Swedish Philanthropy in Southern Africa0
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee0
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
Pan-Africanism versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950–19630
Motsoalle Relationships’ of Lesotho? A Historiographic Critique of Western-Authored Studies of Rural Basotho Women’s Friendships and Intimacies0
Reflections 50 Years after the Initial South African Invasion of Angola0
The Re-Emergence of Black Unions in the Western Cape0
‘Young Lions of the Time’: Sophia Williams and Her Fight against Apartheid0
75 Not Out: Reflections0
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence0
A Longer Walk to Freedom: Vesta Smith and Struggles for Social Justice in South Africa, 1940s 20120
Black Gods and Black Messiahs — Reading Religion in the Wake of Blackness0
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
Shallow Prohibition: 50 Years since South Africa's Abortion and Sterilisation Act0
Development and Growth of Rubber Production in Colonial Malawi: Any Benefit to the Local People?0
Documenting South African Exile in the Polish People’s Republic in the 1980s: Patrick Mabinda, Beverley Marcus, and the Lodz Film School0
Shifting Trends in Nursing Education in High Commission Territories: The Case of Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1948–19670
The Scorpion’s Sting: How Questions of Race, Representation, and Historic Injustice Shaped Post-Apartheid Lawfare0
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress0
Adult Children of Bondage: Recaptured African Childhoods and Labour at the Cape Colony, 1807–18340
‘Ambiguities of Dependence’: Past and Present in Southern Africa’s Political Practice0
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation0
Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy0
The Cost of Union: Smuts and the Price for the Rhodesian ‘Province’0
Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field0
A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956–20120
‘The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance, and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate0
Crime behind the Wire: South African Prisoners in Second World War Italy and Germany0
‘Town Born and Bred’: The Influence of Urban Life on Lilian Ngoyi’s Activism0
Interrogating the South African Garrison State (1930s–1940s): Oswald Pirow and Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr0
This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt0
‘A Fictitious Referendum and a European Affair’: African Perspectives of the 1922 Referendum and the 1923 Responsible Government in Southern Rhodesia0
The Founding of Port Natal0
Eskom and the Electricity Act 42 of 19220
Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona . By ZOE R. GROVES. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan, 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
Book Forum0
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–19900
My Own Liberator: A Memoir; All Rise: A Judicial Memoir0
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties0
Cultivating Citizens and Making Men: The Rise of the Physical Training Battalion, c .1938–19470
The Internal Settlement and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in Patriotic Front Propaganda0
Insidious Dispossession and Defence of Land Ownership – Tsolo Farms, 1880–19170
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space : Genealogies, Discourses, an0
A Remedy for Maintaining a Steady Supply of Timber? Plantation Forestry Development in the Eastern Districts of Colonial Zimbabwe, c .1945–19800
‘Waar is beter dorp in Zuid Africa dan Stellenbos?’: What the Stellenbosch-Drakenstein Tax Censuses Reveal0
The Evolution of an Anti-Colonialist: Goler T. Butcher and Legal-Professional Activism against Portuguese Colonialism in Africa0
Gatekeeping the Profession: Barriers to the Admission of Foreign and Black Nationals as Lawyers during and after Apartheid0
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
Announcement of SAHJ Article Prize Winner - Volume 75 (2023)0
The Imperialist Dream of João Albasini, a Portuguese Trader in South-East Africa, 1847–18700
‘Think More Clearly than the State Allows’: Rick Turner’s Challenge to the Present0
Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique0
Party Politics and Populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and Political Change, 1955–20140
Flags, Stamps and Coats of Arms: Symbols and the Making of Identity in Southern Rhodesia0
Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 19710
The Legal and Social Context of Urban Movement, Housing, and Coping Mechanisms through Inheritance Practices amongst Women from Phokeng, Gugulethu, and Fingo Village0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty0
Phylloxera and the Development of Rural Financial Networks in the Cape Colony0
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964–19790
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation0
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi0
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
The Impact of the Anglo–Boer War on Russian Marxists before the October Revolution0
Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa0
Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War0
From Plough to Entrepreneurship: A History of African Entrepreneurs in Evaton 1905–1960s0
Domestic Space, Intimate Surprises: The Bonds and Bondage of Enslaved, Khoisan, and Settler Women in the 1825 Koue Bokkeveld Revolt0
Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race0
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures0
When ‘White Liberalism Leaned Backwards’: The Limits of Cross-Racial Anti-Apartheid Collaboration amongst Four Women Social Scientists0
Sixty Years Since Zambia’s Independence: Revisiting Scholarship on the Struggle Against Colonialism0
‘Our Greater Rhodesia’: Settler Aspirations, Indigenous Fears, and Whitehall Concerns Regarding Amalgamation, 1919–19450
When South Africa Tried to Make Zimbabwe Its Fifth Province: Settler Colonial Interests and Legacies of the 1922 Rhodesian Referendum0
The Emergence of South Africa’s Public Interest Litigation Field: Unity and Tensions0
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