Journal of Southern African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Southern African Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System21
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 195215
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre 10
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State9
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–628
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid8
The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique8
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis8
The Social Impact of Climate Change in Southern Africa: Introduction7
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health7
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 19526
The Role of Transdisciplinary Formats in the Awareness Creation of (Social) Climate Change Impacts: A Namibian Perspective6
The Incorporation of Diversity in the Constitution of Mauritius: A Case of Identities Frozen in Time6
From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined6
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa6
‘You have to know why you breathe’: Women’s Intellectual Work in the Southern African Liberation Struggle Women’s Sections5
Vigilante democracy: popular justice in contemporary South Africa5
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa5
‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa5
Editorial4
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India4
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland4
Editorial4
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe4
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out3
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian3
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa3
Editorial3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe3
The personal–local as national history3
Kinship and Hauntings in Post-Apartheid KwaNdebele, South Africa3
Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 19943
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 19522
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia2
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania2
Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History2
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–19972
Extractivist Mega-Projects in Mozambique: Dispossession, Politicisation and Resistance in Moatize and Cabo Delgado2
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–18342
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review1
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ1
Editorial1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state 1
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract1
The South African state and the regulation and management of mining waste1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa1
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–19631
Reading is the Weapon: Books and the Making of MK as a Political Army1
‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’: Subnationalism and the Growth and Evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in South West Africa, 1921–19241
Editorial1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA1
Intellectuals, Revolution and Literature in Nationalist Armed Struggle in Angola and Mozambique, 1961–19741
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa1
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 19801
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–19381
Donal Lowry, 1959–20221
A Whole New Ball Game: The Historiography of Sport in South Africa1
Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province1
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia1
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations1
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development1
The human impact on big game in Botswana 1
Dangerous Relations: Everyday Storytelling and the Dilemmas of Moral Discernment in Rural Zambia1
Liberation Armies, Women Soldiers and Martial Masculinity: Gender and Training in the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA)1
Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique 1
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–20181
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election1
Sowing the Empire: Eucalyptus in Angola, c .1875–19751
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana1
African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia0
The Causes and Impact of Famo Music Gang Violence in Lesotho0
‘van die oorspronklike lippe’ (‘from the original lips’): The 19th-Century Cape Colony, Holographic Archaeology and the Historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s /xam–Afrikaans Collection0
Understanding post-apartheid indebtedness: an ethnography of money and social aspiration in South Africa 0
Luanda: the many facets of an African city undergoing transformation0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe0
Editorial0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions0
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities0
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–19560
Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History0
Mobilising Youth into Violent Extremism in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique: A Timeline Analysis of Push and Pull Factors, 2010–20240
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid0
‘Too delicate to work’? Breadwinners, Women and Work in Cape Town before the Second World War0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola0
The People and Climate Change: How Experts and Communities Disagree on Climate Change Impact in South Africa and Botswana0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia0
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr0
Elite Contestation in South Africa, 2006–2018: The Making and Unmaking of a Power Elite0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–19310
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe0
Editorial0
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–20210
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola0
Getting under the skin of Luanda0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap0
Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–19220
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique0
A Visible Problem0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 19700
Replacing Customs Revenue with Taxes on Income and Domestic Consumption: The South African Experience0
Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts0
Correction0
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial0
Editorial0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance0
Editorial0
Editorial0
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania0
Liberation Armies’ Imagined Futures in Southern Africa0
Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–20240
Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s0
Editorial0
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa0
State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883–19610
Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–20160
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity0
Accounting for ZANU’s Ghana-Trained Insurgents in Rhodesia, 1964–19790
Crocodile Hunting in the Okavango Swamps: White Hunters and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Late Colonial Botswana0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa0
Adaptation Options for Climate Change in Botswana: An Overview0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s0
Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–19640
Geography and nation building0
Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–19890
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653–19000
Toxified Bodies: Women and Everyday Encounters of Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, c. 2000 to the Present0
The making of South African revolutionaries 0
The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis?0
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 19730
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–890
The Emergence of a Third Liberation Movement in Angola: The Founding History of UNITA, 1964–19660
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–20200
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign0
William Beinart: A Personal Appreciation0
Liberation Movements and Battlefield Solidarity: Frelimo and ZANU Soldiers Fighting Side by Side in Rhodesia0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate0
The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe0
Making the Best of a Setback: The Fuel Conservation Programme of the Vorster Government in the 1970s0
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier0
Editorial0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life0
Editorial0
Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–20210
A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–19590
Points of Entry into Zimbabwean Post-Independence Politics: Mugabe, the Military or the Social SubalternsStephen Chan, Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (London, I.B.0
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi0
Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD0
The Ethnic Distribution of the Enslaved Population of Southern Mozambique following the Mfecane: An Analysis of the Registers of Slaves and Libertos of Lourenço Marques 0
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism0
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–19600
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa 0
Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? Gift Wasambo Kayira, The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting0
The ‘Reckless’ White Father: The Violent Deaths of Farmworkers in South Africa and their Saliences0
Campus Radio in the Capital City: A Brief History of Radio Tuks ( c. 1976 to 1996)0
Beaches, Hotels and ‘LM Prawns’: Tourist Circulation and the Politics of Race in Settler Colonial Mozambique ( c. 1952–1975)0
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township0
Editorial0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–19750
‘If you belong to my generation and you never read James Hadley Chase, then you are not educated’: Everyday Reading of High School Students in Soweto, 1968–19760
Obituary0
‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the War against UNITA0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations0
Fighting from the Nebulous Space of Exile: The Lesotho Liberation Army and its Impact and Legacy on Lesotho’s Political State0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–19650
Editorial0
Editorial practice and the presentation of Nambian genocide history 0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape0
Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia0
Youth Dreams, State Repression and Military Mobility: Tracing the Origins of ZAPU’s Liberation Army0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un0
From the Soviet Komsomol to the Battlefields of Mozambican Liberation: Transnational Ideas and the Question of the Frelimo Youth League, 1963–19690
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice0
Editorial0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–19700
Correction0
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