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	23
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	15
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	8
Wars or revolutions?	7
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	7
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	7
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	6
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	6
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	6
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	5
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	4
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	4
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	4
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	4
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	4
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	4
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Competing dreams of freedom	4
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	4
‘Back to the Fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Editorial	4

Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	3
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	3
Editorial	3
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg	3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
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	3
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	3
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa	2
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	2
Editorial	2
The personal–local as national history	2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	2
Care and its costs: claims for more in Malawi	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa	1
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	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
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Editorial	1
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	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 micropolitics of a bantustan	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province	1

‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	1
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un	0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity	0
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	0
William Beinart: A Personal Appreciation	0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia	0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days	0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana	0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	0
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body	0
Correction	0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa	0
Editorial	0
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	0
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–2016	0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020	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
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa	0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	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
Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–1989	0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity	0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa	0
In the shadows of formal education	0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia	0
Obituary	0
Can a dissident be a citizen?	0
How polygamy became queer	0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa	0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	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
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi	0
Editorial	0
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–1970	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
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap	0
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s	0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965	0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice	0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier	0
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe	0
Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy	0
A Visible Problem	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
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations	0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	0
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	0
Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa	0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	0
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District	0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970	0
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa	0
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653–1900	0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	0
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid	0
Getting under the skin of Luanda	0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war	0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe	0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	0

Crocodile Hunting in the Okavango Swamps: White Hunters and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Late Colonial Botswana	0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	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
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–1990	0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	0
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government	0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89	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
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions	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
Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications	0
On the voyage of rediscovery	0
Editorial	0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction	0
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships	0
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions	0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
Editorial	0
A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–1959	0
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems	0
Class, work and whiteness	0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s	0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance	0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?	0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico	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
Fathers in stories of the nation	0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola	0
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi	0
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	0
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature	0
Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–2024	0
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial	0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	0
Southern Africa: Is It Still a Thing?	0
Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–1964	0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?	0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)	0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate	0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	0
Geography and nation building	0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid	0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance	0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe	0
The ANC in the struggle and in power	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
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi	0
Editorial	0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life	0
Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa	0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’	0
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa	0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice	0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia	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
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township	0
On the afterlives of colonialism	0
Editorial	0
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday	0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?	0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement	0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	0
Editorial	0
Beyond the State? Organised Settler Tobacco Interests and the Consolidation of Southern Rhodesia’s Tobacco Industry in the Early Post-Second World War Years	0
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone	0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos	0
Editorial	0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign	0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism	0
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa	0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery	0
The making of South African revolutionaries	0
Obituary	0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa	0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	0
Land, conservation and the San in Northern Namibia	0
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	0
In Solomon’s way	0
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract	0
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings	0