Journal of Southern African Studies

Article	Citations
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	11
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	9
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	9
Wars or revolutions?	9
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	7
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	6
The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique	6
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	6
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	6
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	6
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	5
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	5
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	5
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	5
‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	4
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	4
From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	4
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India	4
Editorial	4

Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
The personal–local as national history	3
Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	3
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian	3
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	3
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	3
Editorial	3
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Editorial	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa	2
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963	1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Editorial	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	1
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province	1
Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique	1
The micropolitics of a bantustan	1
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1

Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
The human impact on big game in Botswana	0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s	0
The Causes and Impact of Famo Music Gang Violence in Lesotho	0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa	0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi	0
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract	0
Editorial	0
The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle	0
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	0
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign	0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa	0
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa	0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction	0
Editorial	0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana	0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity	0
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township	0
Editorial	0
‘The League Will Not Ignore the Cry of the Negro Race for Justice’: Marcus Garvey, the League of Nations and South-West Africa	0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate	0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe	0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe	0
African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act	0
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–2021	0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life	0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?	0
Editorial	0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid	0
‘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, 1968–1976	0
Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–1964	0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance	0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	0
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa	0
Editorial	0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	0
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	0
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020	0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement	0
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia	0
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	0
‘Stealing Dingane’s Title’: The Fatal Significance of Saguate Gift-Giving in Zulu King Dingane’s Killing of Governor Ribeiro (1833) and Piet Retief (1838)	0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	0
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions	0
Obituary	0
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89	0
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi	0
Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–2021	0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism	0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965	0
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico	0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos	0
A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–1959	0
Campus Radio in the Capital City: A Brief History of Radio Tuks ( c. 1976 to 1996)	0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier	0
Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa	0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions	0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un	0
‘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 Collection	0
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s	0
Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s	0

Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–2024	0
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973	0
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653–1900	0
Editorial	0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice	0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	0
Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD	0
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi	0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District	0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial	0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)	0
Editorial	0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa	0
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	0
Geography and nation building	0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia	0
The making of South African revolutionaries	0
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956	0
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?	0
Editorial	0
Correction	0
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance	0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’	0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations	0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	0
Fathers in stories of the nation	0
On the afterlives of colonialism	0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance	0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia	0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe	0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war	0
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems	0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?	0
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	0
Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–1922	0
Getting under the skin of Luanda	0
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships	0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice	0
Class, work and whiteness	0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap	0
A Visible Problem	0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	0
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia	0
Editorial	0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–2016	0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa	0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970	0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	0
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid	0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola	0
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–1960	0
William Beinart: A Personal Appreciation	0
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity	0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	0
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
The British Establishment and its radical periphery	0
The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy	0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days	0
Editorial	0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–1970	0
Crocodile Hunting in the Okavango Swamps: White Hunters and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Late Colonial Botswana	0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa	0
In the shadows of formal education	0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	0
Obituary	0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	0
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr	0
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	0
Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy	0
Editorial practice and the presentation of Nambian genocide history	0
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel	0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	0
Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa	0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–1990	0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	0
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	0
Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–1989	0
Can a dissident be a citizen?	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., pape	0
Editorial	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: Confronting	0