ABSTRACT In the wake of the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini on 12 March 2021, three historians of KwaZulu-Natal came together to discuss the historiography on the Zulu monarchs. Jabulani Sithole (JS), Liz Timbs (LT) and Jill Kelly (JK) speak about how scholars have written about the late king, the sources available for historians and the limitations of these sources.

ABSTRACT At midnight on Tuesday, 11 May 1965, in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, Basil Johnson, a European farmer who occupied Petronella farm, telephoned the British South Africa Police (BSAP) and reported that his brother, David Patrick Johnson, had gone missing that afternoon. The next morning, the BSAP-led search team assembled at the Johnson homestead and mounted an eight-hour ‘sweep search’ for the whereabouts

(2021). ‘Reflections on Lockdown’. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). An Historian’s Passage to Africa. An Autobiography. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article explores the development of small grains (sorghum, millet, and rapoko) production and marketing in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) over the colonial era from 1890 to the 1970s. Using primary archival and secondary sources, it examines how different factors, including the advent of white settler capitalist agriculture and shifting global food trends, shaped small grains production

(2021). At the Edge of the Anthropocene: Crossing Borders in Southern African Environmental History. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception: Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article explores the history of rainmaking rituals in Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2000. Beyond Africans’ relationship with nature, the history of rainmaking rituals shows how religion was a powerful political tool used by the chieftaincy to influence and control the subjects. The paper argues that the rainmaking institution was a powerful tool to try and control nature through propitiating

ABSTRACT This article explores how the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic played out in one British colony, Nyasaland (now Malawi). Using a variety of data sources, I illustrate how the disease spread from one area to another through lines of communication and population movement and show how the colonial administrators and local people responded to the influenza pandemic. I further highlight the mortality

(2021). Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article analyses a number of academic and journalistic proposals on the negotiated partition of South Africa coming from different schools of thought, from within South Africa and abroad, from the 1920s up to the late 1980s. These proposals of dividing South Africa into a ‘predominantly black’ and a ‘predominantly white’ state were presented by their authors as an alternative to apartheid

ABSTRACT Focusing on the establishment of maternity care services predominantly for young, working-class white and coloured unmarried mothers, this article examines social and institutional responses to and changing conceptions of single motherhood and illegitimacy in early to mid-twentieth-century Cape Town, then one of the country’s largest and most well-established urban centres. It suggests that

(2021). Migrant Labour after apartheid: The Inside Story. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Following the release and implementation of the ‘Report of the Commission of Enquiry into South West Africa Affairs’ (Odendaal Plan) in 1964, humans and non-humans in Etosha-Kaokoveld (northwest Namibia) undermined South African rule. Drawing on published, archival, government, and limited-circulation sources, this more-than-human history examines how responses among scientists, pastoralists

ABSTRACT The territory once administered by the KwaZulu homeland, roughly 30 per cent of the current province of KwaZulu-Natal, belongs to the Ingonyama Trust. After South Africa’s first democratic elections of 26–28 April 1994, the other nine homelands were integrated into a unitary state. The land they administered came under the authority of the national government. KwaZulu was the only exception

(2021). Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Self-Devouring Growth – A Planetary Parable As Told From Southern Africa. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT During the Second World War (1939–1945), black South Africans displayed apathetic attitude and disloyal tendencies towards government. They were disillusioned with the racially induced social, economic and political discrimination policies of the state. Authorities established systems and exploited mass communication platforms such as the print media, radio and films to disseminate propaganda

(2021). On the Edge of … the Rabbit Hole?. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The fossil-fuelled Anthropocene, with its attendant destruction of wildlife, originated with global capitalism. Early ‘fortress’ conservation efforts focussed on delineating protected areas, but in the latter part of the twentieth century, wildlife expanded on private and communal lands in Southern Africa through schemes allowing people to benefit directly from wildlife. Community-based natural

ABSTRACT There is a large volume of African-scholarship that contextualises migration in terms of internally-and-externally-motivated movement of people. However, scholarship that considers internal-migration and forced-evictions from their land by the colonial-settler-state in Zimbabwe and the impact of such evictions on the people of Sanyati is limited. This article examines the impact of state-induced-migration

ABSTRACT Washington Okumu (1936–2016) went to South Africa in April 1994 as part of the Kissinger–Carrington team charged to mediate Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)-African National Party (ANC)/National Party (NP) differences on the interim constitution. A few days after the collapse of that effort he emerged as the individual broker for a behind-the-scenes agreement that brought the IFP back into South

(2021). Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The rejoinder by Beinart and Delius sheds further light on the convergence and divergence of our views on land tenure reform in contemporary South Africa. Convergence on such issues as the need for policies to offer a range of options and choices in relation to land tenure systems is briefly noted. Divergence is most notable in relation to contrasting assessments of the option of democratized

(2021). Response to the review by Ben Cousins of Rights to Land: A Guide to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in South Africa. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Rights to Land: A Guide to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in South Africa. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The successes recorded against apartheid sport are lauded and celebrated. These remain a touchstone for progressive social change and are considered a model for contemporary action. This paper uses Sir Stanley Matthews as a case study of an English sports superstar and household name across the footballing world, who benefitted from apartheid but also vacillated and seemingly opposed the system

(2021). Historian: An Autobiography. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park. South African Historical Journal. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The political cartoon has proven to be an effective means not only to mock but also to criticise the government of the day and to expose its abuse of power. The visual nature of cartoons, combined with humour, enables cartoon artists to bring across their message in a succinct manner. Cartoonists also employ references to events that their readership can relate to, making cartoons a mode of

(2020). In the Shadow of the Great White Queen: The Edendale Kholwa of Colonial Natal, 1850–1906. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 702-704.

(2020). Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 704-706.

(2020). Trennung und Angst. Hendrik Verwoerd und die Gedankenwelt der Apartheid. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 706-709.

(2020). Correction. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 711-711.

ABSTRACT Waste has been a generally overlooked material for historians of Cape Town. However, this article contends that it is through attendance to the material demands of waste with waste management infrastructure that the city landscape has been and continues to be produced. I examine this through four interconnected viewpoints, focussing on the years 1882 to 1913. First, in the late nineteenth

(2020). ‘Ethnographically Intimate: Notes from the Colonial Field’. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 461-469.

(2020). ‘Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa’. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 361-365.

ABSTRACT The history of people of Indian origin in southern Africa has been dominated by the history of the large and influential populations of South Africa. The neglect of other parts of the region has meant that the particularities of Indian settlement and its relationship with the colonial governance and local populations, especially in the poorest and most marginal colonies, have in turn been

ABSTRACT The Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) in South Africa during and before the apartheid years was long seen as an obstacle to social change. Occasional critical Afrikaner voices in the 1960s and early 1970s were firmly silenced by church authorities. After 1976, scattered clerical dissent was more clearly asserted, but at the national synod of 1982 it was abjured and critics were removed from positions

(2020). Obituary: Rui Alberto Mateus Pereira (Lisbon, 13 August 1957–Azeitão, 19 March 2020) South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 558-560.

(2020). Correction. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 710-710.

(2020). The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 699-701.

ABSTRACT This article considers the history of South African imperialism and claims over a white Southern Africa, throughout the period between 1910 and 1963, and how it affected colonial rule and practice in the Belgian Congo. The article thereby adds to our knowledge of South African claims in the wider Southern African region and calls for a better understanding of external, and trans-imperial,

ABSTRACT On 15 May 1879, 60 Xhosa – primarily women and children – were forcibly removed by the Cape government from an indentured labour market in Cape Town called the ‘Kaffir Depot’. The Xhosa interpreter who worked at the Depot, Shadrach Boyce Mama, was present at their removal and witnessed one of the women screaming and attempting to kill herself rather than be ripped from her children. In response

(2020). In a Time of Plague: Memories of the ‘Spanish’ Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 549-552.

(2020). Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 546-548.

ABSTRACT In this paper I trace knowledge flows between South Africa and the United States in the early twentieth century. I analyse these flows as parts within a broader white supremacist political project and technology of power. Focusing on the early Union period from the 1910s to the 1930s, I explore links, networks and exchanges within and across imperial and colonial spaces that spanned the Atlantic

ABSTRACT South Africa's colony, Namibia, served as a crucial testing ground for apartheid: not only was it the scene of the only significant effort to impose 'grand apartheid', but also of its demise. This essay examines the role of social engineering experts in these efforts by focusing on their role in the social construction of Omega base which housed Bushman soldiers. Treating Omega as an extended

ABSTRACT Nelisita (1982) was directed by the Angolan filmmaker, writer and anthropologist Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941–2010) in collaboration with the Mumuhuila of Huila, an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Nyaneka-Humbe of south-west Angola, in the historical context of the Civil War (1975–2002). One of the most important films of the Angolan revolutionary cinema’s corpus, Nelisita shifts the

ABSTRACT In the wake of the Anthropocene there is a growing body of literature questioning the colonial and imperialistic underpinnings of geology, mineralogy and mining sciences. When focused on the African continent, these critiques echo and complement previous analyses of the role that anthropology has played as the ‘handmaiden of colonialism’. This article proposes to liken the two debates by focusing

ABSTRACT This paper unravels the problems and challenges faced by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) during the repatriation of its archival material to Fort Hare. One argument that this paper makes is that the politics of archival repatriation and preservation are linked intrinsically to broader questions of South African politics and historiography. There is however an underlying point of more

ABSTRACT The issues of race, class and transformation in South African cricket are examined through a life history of Haroon Lorgat, a player and administrator in pre- and post-apartheid cricket. Lorgat’s journey provides seminal insights into the sport as his life spans the dusty playing fields of apartheid cricket, to the top order of the sport as CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and

ABSTRACT This paper argues that land alienation that occurred in the Tati District (North East District) of Botswana can best be returned to its original inhabitants through land restitution. This is because the Tati is unique from other districts in that other districts did not suffer from severe or intense colonial land alienation, whilst the Tati, in many ways, resembled the overcrowded and impoverished

Professor Bergh, who is highly regarded for his publications based on an extensive archival record of Transvaal history, has achieved a milestone in generating in one volume his own bound repositor...

In this outstanding work, Mujere examines the operative logics and practices that sustain both belonging and difference for the Basotho community, and the contexts for defining the ‘insiderness’ an...

ABSTRACT The history of colonialism in Africa is often portrayed as a confrontation between black Africans and white Europeans, but African adoption of black solidarity as a feature of their liberation movements was a gradual process. Scholars have sometimes traced the beginning of that process in southern Africa to the ‘Ethiopian’ church movements of 1880–1910, particularly in the ways that they were

ABSTRACT In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British passed laws in most of their African colonies prohibiting any individual from accusing another of practising witchcraft and banning the consultation of ‘witch-doctors’ to identify practitioners of malefic rituals. Scholars have generally concurred that these laws were a natural outgrowth of England’s own decriminalisation of

ABSTRACT The year of 1948 witnessed two elections that pushed race relations in the United States and South Africa in dramatically opposite directions. In November, the victory of Harry S. Truman placed the White House on the side of domestic civil rights and against racial oppression and segregation. His was the first presidential administration to publicly and privately embrace the struggle for racial

ABSTRACT Harriet Townsend was an Eastern Cape businesswoman who established a jewellery and retail shop in the frontier town of Cradock in the 1840s, importing superior goods via Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and using outworkers to finish plain goods to a high standard and make bespoke items to order. The business received considerable assistance from a group of merchant advisors. It developed rapidly