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Obituary Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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 0.864) 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
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Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 James Hlongwana, Elize S. van Eeden
The Ndau society in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique borderland has seemingly been neglected by colonial and post-independence governments. Exclusion from the mainstream economies of the region by the Zimbabwean and Mozambican governments has forced the Ndau to rely largely upon themselves to survive in the remote, poverty-stricken borderland. This survival practice means that many borderland residents embrace
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Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Alastair Niven
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Friday E. Mulenga
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Mandisi Majavu
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Melusi Nkomo, Lotti Nkomo
In post-2000s Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has become one of the major economic activities that provides income and livelihood opportunities to millions of people. The article attempts to make sense of how such mining activities intertwined with the country’s political economy and became implicated in shaping the dynamics of local and national politics. Taking the case of
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Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Owen Nyamwanza
This article discusses the insecurity challenges faced by irregular Zimbabwean immigrants as well as mitigatory strategies they deploy to survive in an informal settlement in Pretoria East, South Africa. Globally, immigrants (especially irregular immigrants) have been and continue to be viewed and treated as societal and state security threats in the host societies. In response to this perceived or
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The personal–local as national history Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Kealeboga J. Maphunye
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 James Musonda
This article explores how Zambian mine workers used the courts and a protest campaign to resist predatory lending by Stanbic Bank. Given that debt repayment was done directly from their salaries, these workers were not necessarily advocating debt refusal or default. Neither did they expect the courts to rule in their favour. Rather, they sought to resist the bank’s arbitrary changes to the terms of
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ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Enock Ndawana, Mediel Hove
The Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]) regime’s survival strategies have been misleadingly presented as relying mainly upon political violence. This neglects analysis focusing on the ZANU(PF) regime’s non-violent survival strategies, which have also been key to its longevity. While a growing body of literature discusses ZANU(PF) non-violent strategies, including patriotic
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Mattia Fumanti
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–2020 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Innocent Dande
This article examines changing attitudes to afternoon and evening meals during the Zimbabwean crisis between 1997 and 2020. It uses household food economics in Harare’s high-density suburbs as an entry point into the historiography of the Zimbabwean crisis. By focusing on the management of household economics, the article analyses the affordability, typologies and naming of some meals or relishes that
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God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Dorothy Tembo
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Paul Chiudza Banda
This article traces the post-presidency experiences of Malawi’s first head of state, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, from 1994 to 1997. Most of what has been written about him has concentrated on his time as an active politician, starting from the late 1950s, when he led the struggle against British colonial rule, and when he was the country’s head of state, from 1964 to 1994, focusing on both domestic and
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African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Beaurel Visser
Pressure in the Cape Colony parliament for disfranchising policies was primarily instigated by the Afrikaner Bond. The Bond’s initiatives were based on prejudice against Africans and amounted to an attempt at weakening the influence of English-speaking politicians with the belief that many of them were in parliament because Africans voted for them. An attempt was made through the Parliamentary Voters’
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Getting under the skin of Luanda Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Paul Jenkins
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Paolo Israel
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Brooks Marmon
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Bastien Dratwa
With the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, a shift has taken place in the organisation of xenophobia as xenophobic activism has adapted to the pandemic and increasingly moved ‘online’. While a large scholarship on the various aspects of ‘offline’ xenophobia in contemporary South Africa has been produced, the recent intensification of online xenophobic activism during the pandemic remains
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‘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 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Luan Staphorst
This article investigates the historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s collection of /xam folklore, history, and observational accounts published predominantly in Afrikaans during the early 20th century. Von Wielligh’s collection is often portrayed as suspect in relation to the ‘great’ /xam archive, namely that of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd – with accusations of plagiarism a common charge. Through a
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Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Danwood M. Chirwa
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2022)
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Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 David Jeffery-Schwikkard
The role of religion in political parties has been under-researched in South Africa. This study develops a novel theoretical framework for analysing political parties’ use of religion, which distinguishes between parties’ orientation towards religion (that is, religious or secular; inclusive or exclusive) across three domains: state law, the institutional rules of the party, and the informal norms
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Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Phillan Zamchiya
The fast-track land reform programme in Zimbabwe radically transformed the country’s agrarian structure from one dominated by white-owned, large-scale farms to one dominated by a large group of black family farmers. Since 2017, a set of explanations has emerged that attempts to explain processes of social differentiation in the countryside. These explanations are predominantly informed by a materialist
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Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 David Bunn, Bram Büscher, Melissa R. McHale, Mary L. Cadenasso, Daniel L. Childers, Steward T.A. Pickett, Louie Rivers III, Louise Swemmer
There are renewed global efforts to make wildlife conservation the foundation for broad-based economic development. This article looks at these tendencies in the ‘Kruger to Canyons’ (K2C) biosphere region in South Africa, encompassing the Kruger National Park and adjacent settlement areas and reserves. Various forms of the wildlife economy have a long history in this region. However, it is increasingly
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‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa, Maitseo M.M. Bolaane, Boingotlo A. Moses
Recent historical work on global health and the threat of infectious disease in Africa has looked at the ecology of infections, disease trajectories, colonial interventions and the impact of disease on local communities in varied geographic landscapes and cultural responses. A particularly valuable avenue of analysis has explored racial prejudices of colonial anti-syphilis programmes, largely looking