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‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Hans Olsson
Social conditions in post-apartheid South Africa have been widely seen as marked by persistent and often racialised inequalities. The country has also been viewed through the prism of crisis, in ec...
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A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Robby Kapesa
This study employs an explorative case study methodology, which utilises interviews, historical analysis and observations to identify and analyse the local powers and politics that influence large-...
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An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Billy Keniston
This article examines the career of the South African undercover agent Craig Williamson in the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that the violent acts of men like Williamson must be analysed in terms of the...
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Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Joshua Matanzima
Drawing on five years of intermittent ethnographic work at Kariba, I discuss the impoverishment of the Tonga of Mola chiefdom in the context of escalating human–wildlife conflict and frequent droug...
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Politics and science in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jacob Dlamini
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Apartheid’s hidden histories Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jeff Peires
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Katie Carline
This article examines the history of black women’s Christian activity in the East Bank location of East London (also known as Duncan Village) in the early years of apartheid. Oral, textual and phot...
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Colin Bundy
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mignonne Breier
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Leslie Bank
This article considers popular political mobilisation in East London prior to the launch of the Defiance Campaign in the city in 1952, which ignited a racial war. It suggests that the failure of th...
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Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Hlengiwe Ndlovu
Narratives of political and community struggles often privilege the role of men, painting them as the faces of the struggle. Yet, women have been (and continue to be) active participants who have f...
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Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mignonne Breier
When the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of 1996/97 was tasked with investigating gross human rights violations from 1 March 1960 to 1994, there was a presumption that apart...
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The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 William Beinart, Colin Bundy
This concluding overview explores themes which provide background to the four articles in the part special issue on popular protest in the Eastern Cape, with a special focus on East London. As thes...
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Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Thembisa Waetjen, Perside Ndandu
After the South African War (1899–1902), state-makers’ efforts to control ‘dagga’ was controversial on several fronts. But ‘dagga’ also proved a moving target for official classification. Was it a ...
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Memories of an ambiguous federation legacy Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Euan Nisbet
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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The politics of faith Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jean Comaroff
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa
Historical studies of migration have largely ascribed the configuration of masculinities in Botswana to male labour migration. This discourse is beyond dispute. As a paradigm, however, it has obscu...
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Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers? Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Joshua Bell, Sally Matthews
Fairtrade International (FTI) is an international certificatory body that seeks to restructure market relationships to support marginalised producers. In order to do this, FTI sells certified produ...
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‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Gary Kynoch
Based on interviews with 43 serving members at four Public Order Police units, this article highlights the perspectives of officers involved in arguably the most contentious and visible aspect of S...
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Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Erik Green, Mark Nyandoro
In the 1930s the colonial authorities in Zimbabwe set aside geographical areas where Africans were allowed to purchase land. Despite having private property rights to land, a rare occurrence among ...
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A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lieneke de Visser
In August 1970, four senior African National Congress members – Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu – vanished during their clandestine return to South Africa from exile in Zambia...
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In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Francois Johannes Cleophas
This article endeavours to awaken a scholarly interest in the origins and early history of tennis in the city of Cape Town and the Cape Colony more broadly. By drawing on newspaper accounts and oth...
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Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru
In response to the low numbers of women in elected positions of power, Tanzania reserves special seats for women in parliament and local governance structures. Consequently, the special seats syste...
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The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ralph Shield
Rwanda’s mid 2021 military intervention meaningfully degraded the capability of the jihadist insurgents terrorising northern Mozambique. Rwanda’s early battlefield achievements were due to a combin...
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Obituary Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lazlo Passemiers
Even though the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee (Coremo) was Mozambique’s second largest liberation movement, historians have neglected its role in the struggle for Mozambican independence. This...
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Dennis Walder
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum, 1951–1960 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Zachary Fleishman
South African historians have largely overlooked the night as a frame of historical analysis. This article is an initial attempt to rectify this by exploring Drum as a source for this endeavour. Dr...
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African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mutale T. Mazimba
During the First World War, 312,891 men and women from Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) were recruited as porters. Their task was to ensure a steady supply of food and artillery from Northern Rhodesia to...
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Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Martin Kalb
This article centres on |Gomxab Simon Kooper’s resistance to German colonialism in Southwest Africa (1884–1915, modern-day Namibia). First, it underscores the agency of Kooper and the Fransman Nama...
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How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rachel Wynberg, Sarah Ives, June Bam
Benefit-sharing agreements are a new, prescriptive way of treating trade, biodiversity and the commercial use of traditional knowledge. However, these agreements have met with surprisingly little c...
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Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Laurence Stewart
This article tracks the involvement of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) in the strike on the Lichtenburg diamond diggings of June 1928, during which 35,000 black workers downed to...
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Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Borja García, Henk Erik Meier, Louis Moustakas
Joining the Olympic Movement provides smaller countries with material and symbolic benefits. The Olympic Games represent a unique symbolic stage for national recognition and identity construction. ...
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‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo
This article examines why land reform beneficiaries maintain linkages with their communal areas of origin two decades after Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). This is done by inve...
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Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Domingos Manuel do Rosário, Egídio Guambe
Based on observation of the 2019 legislative, presidential and provincial elections in Mozambique, this article uncovers and examines models applied by the Frelimo regime in manipulating elections....
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The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Robert Macdonald, Thomas Molony, Victoria Lihiru
In June 2020, the government of Tanzania declared that Covid-19 had been eradicated from the country. As the figures released by Tanzania’s Ministry of Health since March 2021 show, this was not tr...
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Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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The making of South African revolutionaries Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Alex Lichtenstein
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jeremy Seekings
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alexander Caramento
Following the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in the country’s copper mines in 1969, the Zambian government issued repayment bonds (that is, ‘ZIMCO bonds’) to their minority owners, Anglo-Americ...
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Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 James Musonda, Miles Larmer
This article examines the failure of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government to secure the electoral support of Copperbelt mine communities in the 2021 Zambian election, despite its implementati...
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The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alexander Caramento, Richard G. Saunders, Miles Larmer
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Japhace Poncian
Tanzania has gone through two waves of resource nationalism since independence, with both having significant implications for the country’s evolving approach to governing its resources. This articl...
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Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–2021 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alexander Caramento, Marja Hinfelaar, Caesar Cheelo
Heightened copper prices and the perceived profiteering of foreign mining investors in the 2000s spurred calls for greater revenue from mineral extraction in Zambia. Following the abrogation of the...
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Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Richard G. Saunders, Lyman Mlambo, Jesse Salah Ovadia
A new wave of resource nationalism washed through southern Africa in the 2000s, driven by rising popular demand for greater local participation in the mining sector value chain, more equitable redi...
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Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Richard G. Saunders
In 2008, in the midst of a deepening political-economic crisis, Zimbabwe’s ZANU(PF) government introduced ‘Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment’ as a policy framework to guide the domestication ...
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Mattia Fumanti
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Mwayi Lusaka
This article engages with discourses of public memory and heritage as constituted by the biography of David Livingstone to understand how the past is instrumentalised in present-day Malawi and Scotland. It discusses how in Malawi and Scotland, Livingstone’s memory has influenced, and continues to influence, the making of bilateral relations between these two nations. Drawing on archival and documentary
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Points of Entry into Zimbabwean Post-Independence Politics: Mugabe, the Military or the Social Subalterns Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Simukai Tinhu
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Denver A. Webb
An African ploughing his fields in western Mpondoland in 1910 uncovered two elephant tusks at the site of what had once been King Faku’s homestead. This obscure incident in the Transkeian Territories of South Africa provides an entry point to examining the consolidation of colonial bureaucratic control, and African responses to it, in the second decade of the 20th century by the Union of South Africa
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African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Anna Kapambwe Mwaba
The African Union is emerging as a prominent actor in election assistance and observation. Considering the continued centrality of the electoral process to democracy-building efforts in Africa, African continental and regional organisations are increasingly monitoring elections and taking the lead in election observation processes across the continent. This paper contributes to the African agency literature
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‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Joshua Doble
This article examines the history of Chilapalapa, a colonial pidgin language, in Zambia. ‘Prickly proximity’ is used as a conceptual tool to understand the ways in which fraught yet intimate interracial relationships are managed by many of the white farming community of Zambia, who are at once privileged by their colonial past and bound by it. The article further discusses the history of the language
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Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Mesrob Vartavarian
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Kealeboga J. Maphunye
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Murendehle M. Juwayeyi, Lee A. Leonard, Happy E. Mwaungulu
A British protectorate from 1891, Malawi became independent in 1964. Historians typically recognise the period from 1964 to at least the early 1990s as one in which Malawi was under the dictatorship of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Freedom of expression was virtually non-existent in public and human rights were violated as a norm. However, as a result of both external and internal pressure, Banda
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Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Norman Etherington
Very little of the vast literature on David Livingstone treats his decade as a missionary in South Africa, focusing instead on his later expeditions to central Africa. Described as a failed missionary who gave up evangelism for exploring, he came under fire in the second half of the 20th century for leading European imperialism in Africa. A deeper look into Livingstone’s mission experience from 1841
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‘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 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Kasonde T. Mukonde
Scholarship on the Soweto students’ uprising of 16 June 1976 focuses on the political mobilisation of the march, the day of the march itself and memorialisation of the event. Many of these studies fail to portray the everyday lives of the students who protested against the Bantu Education system in South Africa, dwelling on the spectacular. This article primarily draws on oral history interviews with
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Justin Pearce
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Obituary Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Saul Dubow
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Farai Mtero, Nkanyiso Gumede, Katlego Ramantsima
Land reforms are an important mechanism for addressing inequalities in society. While addressing South Africa’s racialised land inequalities remains crucial, new forms of class inequality are produced through land reform, with the well-off becoming predominant as beneficiaries. This article focuses on elite capture in land redistribution and analyses land-reform outcomes in South Africa’s state land