Journal of Southern African Studies

Article	Citations
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	22
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	14
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	8
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	8
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	7
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	6
Wars or revolutions?	6
Rehabilitating the literary oeuvre of Tiyo Soga	5
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	5
Ethnography of marginalised Mozambicans challenges post-war politics and policy	5
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	5
Constructions of state opposition in colonial and post-colonial Malawi	5
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
Competing dreams of freedom	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
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
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	3

A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017	3
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	3
A Not-So-Zulu Zion: Healing and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church	3
A history of Black Consciousness and progressive politics in apartheid South Africa	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
‘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
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	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
Editorial	3
Private security and public spaces raise complex issues of human rights and safety in Johannesburg	3
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	3
‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990	3
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
Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Untold stories from South Africa and Mozambique: nocturnal labour and mining wealth	2
Editorial	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	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
The personal–local as national history	2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	2
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	1
Editorial	1
Too Rich to Care? Southern African (SADC) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Why the global (and southern African) housing crisis eludes solution	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People	1
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	1
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid	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
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
Contextualising family and subjectivities	1
Editorial	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Lessons Learned or Ignored: New Insights from the Mozambican Civil War	1

In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	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
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	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
Whiteness, environmentalism and decoloniality in South Africa	1
More than ‘Somebody’s Wife’: Maternalism, Welfare and Identity among White Farming Women in Zimbabwe c.1970–2000	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid	0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975	0
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970	0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	0
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	0
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa	0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana	0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa	0
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war	0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’	0
Response to the reviews of Ruling Nature, Controlling People	0
Editorial	0
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body	0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	0
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History	0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–1970	0
Conservation, militarisation and apartheid in Caprivi	0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	0
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?	0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos	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
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance	0
Correction	0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction	0
Editorial	0
How polygamy became queer	0
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	0
Emerging Smallholder Cotton Irrigation Agriculture and Tensions with Estate Labour Requirements in Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1967–1990	0
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976	0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	0
Editorial	0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?	0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi	0
Searching for the good life beyond the wage in South Africa	0
The British Establishment and its radical periphery	0
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa	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
Self-Organisation in the Struggle for Economic Democracy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Lesotho, 1870s–2010s	0
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	0
In Solomon’s way	0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice	0
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	0
The Evolution of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry: From Colonial Klondike to Contract Farming	0
Editorial	0
On the afterlives of colonialism	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
Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality and African Problems	0
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature	0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District	0
Studentification in South Africa: Possible Redirections and Political Implications for Local Government	0
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi	0
Editorial	0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	0
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa	0
Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army	0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate	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
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931	0
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	0
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid	0
The ANC in the struggle and in power	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
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s	0
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	0
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique	0

A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia	0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions	0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia	0
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life	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
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap	0
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township	0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa	0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order	0
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings	0
‘This is where all the white farmers come to die’: Exploring the Roles and Narratives of Former Tobacco Farmers in Contemporary Zimbabwe	0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa	0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign	0
Can a dissident be a citizen?	0
Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–2024	0
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement	0
Editorial	0
A Visible Problem	0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations	0
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique	0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola	0
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	0
The BRICS and Africa: meet the new boss, same as the old?	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
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism	0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico	0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–2016	0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	0
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	0
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa	0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity	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
Southern Africa: Is It Still a Thing?	0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity	0
Religion, social navigation and urban space in sub-Saharan Africa	0
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances	0
Getting under the skin of Luanda	0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle	0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un	0
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms	0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi	0
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core	0
The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction	0
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone	0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020	0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)	0
Anthropology and apartheid: knowledge as the social production of ignorance	0
Geography and nation building	0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement	0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–89	0
Class, work and whiteness	0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial	0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe	0
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia	0
On the voyage of rediscovery	0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa	0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	0
Obituary	0
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	0
Obituary	0
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	0
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	0
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s	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
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965	0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days	0
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	0
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe	0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice	0
Editorial	0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions	0
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism	0
Land, conservation and the San in Northern Namibia	0
Fathers in stories of the nation	0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia	0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships	0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier	0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa	0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	0
The making of South African revolutionaries	0
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s	0
Health in a fragile state	0
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–1974	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
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
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	0
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	0
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	0