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 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 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

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

(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.

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

(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

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 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

(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.

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

(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 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 In July 1966, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) re-emerged in exile in London. The arrival of Dennis Brutus, the coloured Rhodesian-born activist, poet, and educator, into the British capital provided the stimulus to renew calls for the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from international sport. In the years 1966–1970 that marked Brutus’s exile in Britain, SANROC elevated

(2020). Paul Kruger: Speeches and Correspondence 1850–1904. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 555-557.

(2020). Land Migration and Belonging: A History of the Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c.1890–1960s. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 72, Critical Entanglements: Histories of Anthropology in Southern Africa, pp. 552-555.

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

Despite its title, this monograph does not focus on regional geopolitics as such, but, as the subtitle indicates, on South African involvement in the Congo crisis of the early 1960s. That disastrou...

ABSTRACT This article examines changes in Zimbabwean citizenship law since independence, highlighting the experience of urban residents of Malawian origin and descent, and state practices of political exclusion. Zimbabwe’s citizenship laws became increasingly exclusive following independence, leaving many politically disenfranchised and labelled ‘aliens’ by the state. Notwithstanding the introduction

A few weeks before he and Pravin Gordhan were fired by Jacob Zuma from the Ministry of Finance, then Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas met with one of the authors, Mark Swilling from Stellenbosch Unive...

This volume presents a detailed historical analysis of the Portuguese colonial state’s ongoing but unsuccessful attempts, throughout the mid-twentieth century, to suppress the activities of tinyang...

ABSTRACT South Africa’s system of migrant labour is widely accepted as being an exploitative system that was based on the degree to which the Chamber of Mines could derive a profit from cheap labour. The exploitation and suffering that mine labour and recruitment produced, however, tells us only part of a story. Why were people so willing to become migrant labourers – particularly on gold mines – in

ABSTRACT At the Cape of Good Hope between 1836 and 1841 there was a remarkable spike in imports and exports. Historians have assumed this was because the financial compensation slave-owners received when slavery was abolished in 1834 encouraged speculation. But our historical research on the imports and exports recorded in the Cape Colony’s blue books suggests another, more intriguing, reason: a tax

ABSTRACT 1960 was a pivotal year in the history of apartheid and of South Africa. However, the first great crisis of that year – the Coalbrook Mine Disaster – has been largely forgotten. At least 435 miners died when a large section of the mine collapsed on 21 January 1960. The Coalbrook Disaster can be attributed in large measure to the rise of the racist, capitalist apartheid state in South Africa

ABSTRACT Scholars have written extensively about the role Samora Machel played in FRELIMO during the armed struggle and as the first president of Mozambique. In sharp contrast, we know precious little about Samora’s formative years (1963–1970) and how they shaped his political thinking and action. In what ways did his experiences as a herd boy in southern Mozambique, his difficulties in the colonial

ABSTRACT This essay is an attempt to consider the British Empire in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century from an alternative point of view. Most authors view the empire from a ‘North–South’ perspective: London’s impact on the world; the world’s reaction to London. The emphasis here is rather on the links that developed at Britain’s expense – between

ABSTRACT In much recent historical writing on the history of South African child welfare considerable emphasis has been placed on the poor white problem. The development of child welfare is typically seen as part of the wider project to uplift so-called ‘poor whites’. This article builds on this literature by focusing on one particular aspect of South African child welfare work – the attempt to discipline

ABSTRACT The reach of European empires and of Indian Ocean trade networks drew southern Africa into the global politics of opium around the turn of the twentieth century, in the critical decades of its shift from economies of supply to regimes of control. This article outlines key processes and events concerning opium production, circulation and regulation within the colonies of Mozambique and South

ABSTRACT This article focuses on histories of one category of the many new synthetic drugs of the mid-twentieth century, which were variously termed hypnotics, sedatives and tranquillisers. I invoke Obliv(i)on as a metonym for pharmaceutical products now largely forgotten, for the general absence in our historiography of their significance, and for amnesia about the politics of pharmaceutical regulation

ABSTRACT This study examines what happens to pharmaceutical products after they have been provided, purchased, consumed and discarded. Based on an archive of medical materials, constituted over three years of collecting waste in public sites around South Africa’s Eastern Cape, I analyse the uses of these products in relation to two key developments in post-apartheid history: new forms of healthcare

ABSTRACT Following a petition by the South African Union government of Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts to the League of Nations in 1923, cannabis or dagga became entwined in diplomatic negotiations over an international schedule of habit-forming drugs. The resulting Dangerous Drugs list and the Geneva Convention, signed in 1925, fixed the whole cannabis plant into place as a scheduled substance

ABSTRACT In 1949 scientists in the United States announced the dramatic effects of a new drug, cortisone. They found that cortisone could be made cheaply from diosgenin, extracted from Mexican wild yam species, and began a global search for supplementary plants. By the early 1950s, South African botanists had identified the yam Dioscorea sylvatica, elephant’s foot, as promising. Boots, a major British

ABSTRACT The early history of inoculation against lungsickness of cattle in South Africa provides a case study of the intercontinental transfer and local adaptation of an innovative veterinary treatment during a period when the state did not yet command the resources to regulate medicinal exchanges and experimental knowledge production. After the accidental importation of lungsickness into the Cape

Over the last century and a half, the term ‘drug’ has been assigned an insupportable burden of classificatory and moral labour, defining – in public, legal and health discourses – certain substances and products in relation to the intended purposes and effects of their consumption. As pharmacologist and medicines policy consultant Andy Gray has observed, formal attempts to establish binary categories

In Karel Schoeman’s novel, Another Country, the main character, Versluis, is a Dutchman who travels to Bloemfontein in the late nineteenth century for health reasons. There he encounters a couple of British military officers on their way to the Transvaal. ‘I never set out on a journey without my Tacitus’, one of them claims. Versluis retorts: ‘I prefer poetry myself – I, on the other hand, always take

Abstract This is not my first article on the developments in Zimbabwe during the racist Rhodesian regime. I expressed Moscow’s assessment of the evolving situation and its role in Part 3 of The Hot ‘Cold War’: The USSR in Southern Africa (London and Scottsville, Pluto Press and UKZN Press, 2008), and in particular in the article ‘Moscow and Zimbabwe’s Liberation’, published in the Journal for Southern

Abstract The United Nations Security Council passed a series of resolutions condemning Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in 1965, culminating in Resolution 253 of 1968 imposing comprehensive mandatory international sanctions on Rhodesia. With a few exceptions, notably South Africa and Portugal, most member states supported the resolution and pledged their commitment to uphold

Early in 2015, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) established the HistoryMinisterial Task Team (HMTT) to investigate the proposed implementation of History as a compulsory subject in schools. This roundtable draws on the experience and expertise of teaching practitioners as well as the chairperson of the Ministerial Task Team, Sifiso Ndlovu to contemplate the political context and pedagogical

In 2017, the Wits History Department celebrated its centenary. To mark the milestone, Professor Bruce Murray was commissioned to author the hundred-year history of the Department. In the same year, the Department hosted the 26 Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society during which a plenary session focused on the centennial. The panel considered the work of the History Department