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	10
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	9
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	9
Wars or revolutions?	8
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	6
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	6
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	6
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	6
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	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
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	5
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	5
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s	4
Editorial	4
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?	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
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	4
Competing dreams of freedom	4
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	4
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	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

Asbestos activism in the Northern Cape	3
‘Ovizire · Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?’: Artistic Interventions in the Namibian Colonial Archive (2018–2020)	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
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
Rereading the OvaHerero genocide	3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
Tobacco Farmers and Their Communities: Interlinkages, Gains and Losses in Mazowe, Zimbabwe	3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian	3
The personal–local as national history	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	2
Educated Girls, Clothes and Christianity: Subverting Mabel Shaw’s Sartorial Agenda on the Colonial Zambian Copperbelt, 1925–1964	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Editorial	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	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
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Tobacco Farming and the Reconfiguration of Co-operatives in Tanzania	2
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	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
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract	1
Private stories and public life: narrating the Indian South African present historically	1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	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
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	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
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Editorial	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	1
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
The micropolitics of a bantustan	1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1

‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	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
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	0
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	0
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	0
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war	0
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–1990	0
Editorial	0
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	0
The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy	0
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia	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
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance	0
Can a dissident be a citizen?	0
In the shadows of formal education	0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	0
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s	0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?	0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s	0
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–1956	0
The ANC in the struggle and in power	0
Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–1989	0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid	0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos	0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa	0
Editorial	0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	0
Editorial	0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign	0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	0
Class, work and whiteness	0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa	0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions	0
Fathers in stories of the nation	0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations	0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia	0
The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle	0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap	0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa	0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	0
In Solomon’s way	0
Editorial	0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice	0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–2016	0
William Beinart: A Personal Appreciation	0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	0
Editorial	0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana	0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola	0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days	0
Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s	0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–1970	0
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate	0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery	0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	0
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid	0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	0
Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications	0
Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa	0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi	0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity	0
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–1960	0
Correction	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
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	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 Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	0
Editorial	0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89	0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions	0
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	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
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020	0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi	0
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi	0
Obituary	0
Obituary	0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	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
‘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
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	0
A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–1959	0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	0
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa	0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism	0
Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–2021	0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity	0
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico	0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction	0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	0
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	0
Editorial	0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial	0
Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–2024	0
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–2021	0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	0
Crocodile Hunting in the Okavango Swamps: White Hunters and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Late Colonial Botswana	0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un	0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe	0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia	0
Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–1964	0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	0
Editorial	0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa	0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe	0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	0
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973	0
The making of South African revolutionaries	0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’	0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life	0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement	0
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance	0
Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa	0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia	0
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	0
On the afterlives of colonialism	0
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa	0
On the voyage of rediscovery	0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe	0
Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday	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
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township	0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?	0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy	0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships	0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa	0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	0
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems	0
A Visible Problem	0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier	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
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965	0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	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
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance	0
Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa	0
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653–1900	0
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice	0
Editorial	0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	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
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District	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
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970	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
Getting under the skin of Luanda	0
Geography and nation building	0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	0
State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883–1961	0