South African Historical Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of South African Historical Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The Splintering of South African Evangelicalism during the Last Decade of Apartheid4
Experiment at KwaPoyinandi: African Engagement with the Local Health Commission of the Edendale and District Public Health Area, 1942–c.19572
‘Too Unsavoury for Our Fastidious Tastes’: Unmarried Motherhood in South Africa’s Mother City, Cape Town, 1910–19482
South Africa’s Century of Cannabis Politics, 1922–20222
Ohm Krüger: Context, Appropriation and Irony2
No Asylum from Her Majesty: The British FCO and Complicity with Apartheid2
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe2
The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past2
Indigenous Resurgence in the Cape: The Intellectual Roots and Political Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism1
Chasing a Mirage? A Quest for Food Security through Commercial Farming Schemes in the Pandamatenga Region of Botswana, 1983–20001
Editorial Collective Introductory Note1
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles1
Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in t1
Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party, 1921–2021 . 1
Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize in 2022: Financial Mobilisation for Economic Survival: The Rhodesian Insurance Industry During UDI, 1965–19791
Creating the Correct Frame of Mind: State Propaganda towards Black South Africans during the Second World War, 1939–19451
Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa1
Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960–19841
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short1
Teaching and Researching the World in South Africa1
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi1
Black Gods and Black Messiahs — Reading Religion in the Wake of Blackness1
‘Literacy, Armed Struggle and Black Consciousness’: The Evolution of NAYO, 1973–19761
‘With the Abyssinian Armies, in Defence of Africa’s Only Native State’: Varieties of South African Anti-Fascism, 1930s–1960s1
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid1
This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt1
The Production of Space at Pieter Roos Park: Public Space as a Lens into Johannesburg’s Changing Public Culture 1968–20190
King Zwelithini and the Historians0
An Historian’s Passage to Africa. An Autobiography0
To Write as a Boxer. Disability and Resignification in the Text. A South African Boxer in Britain To Write as a Boxer. Disability and Resignification in the Text. A So0
Materials Necessary for the Formation of a Correct Knowledge of the History of Colonialism in South Africa? Reassessing the Historical Productions of Donald Moodie and Their Implications0
A Principled Pragmatism: Gerald R. Ford and Apartheid South Africa0
 ‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s0
Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies0
When South Africa Tried to Make Zimbabwe Its Fifth Province: Settler Colonial Interests and Legacies of the 1922 Rhodesian Referendum0
White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of their Own White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of their Own . By DUNCAN MON0
The Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–1990) The Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–1990) 0
Negotiated Partition of South Africa – An Idea and its History (1920s–1980s)0
Eskom and the Electricity Act 42 of 19220
The Imperialist Dream of João Albasini, a Portuguese Trader in South-East Africa, 1847–18700
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties 0
Commerce As Politics: The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence0
‘Think More Clearly than the State Allows’: Rick Turner’s Challenge to the Present0
‘They Have Indeed Made History’: Reflections for the 75th Issue of the South African Historical Journal0
History Uploaded: Digital Archives After Thirty Years of Democracy0
White Settlers’ Anti-Fascist and Anti-Colonial Movements in Angola (1930–1945)0
Undoing the Central African Federation: Early Zambian Maneuverings0
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place0
Phylloxera and the Development of Rural Financial Networks in the Cape Colony0
Pitch Battles: Sports, Racism and Resistance0
Frustrated Ambitions: Teacher Associations and Segregated Schooling in the Transvaal, c.1920–19560
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa0
Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona . By ZOE R. GROVES. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan, 0
‘Autonomy for Our Economy’: A Review of the Responsible Government Status and Economic Interest Groups in Southern Rhodesia, 1922 to the Second World War0
South African Women and the Politics of Peace in the 1950s0
Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester0
Camel Imports and Transport Fantasies in German Southwest Africa, 1884–19150
Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race . By ALAN G. M0
Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters0
Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle0
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence0
A Life in Limbo: Otto von Strahl’s Activities for and against Germany in the Union of South Africa0
Christopher Bethell, Charles Warren and the Colonisation of the Southern Batswana0
‘A Fictitious Referendum and a European Affair’: African Perspectives of the 1922 Referendum and the 1923 Responsible Government in Southern Rhodesia0
Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943–19960
Presidential Address: Reflecting on New and Lingering Travails in Southern African Historical Studies.0
Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception: Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma0
Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in 0
The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 19760
‘Filthiest Gangs of Thugs’: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Nazism Perceptions in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s to 1940s0
Historian: An Autobiography0
The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa. I Look Back 30 Years The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa. I Look Back 30 Years 0
On Life History and Network Analysis: A Global Environmental Historian in South Africa0
The ANC Spy Bible: Surviving across Enemy Lines. By MOE SHAIK The ANC Spy Bible. Surviving across Enemy Lines . By MOE SHAIK. Cape Tow0
Beyond the Pale: The ‘Foreigner’ in the Politics of the ‘Frontier’ in the Fish River Marches of the British Cape Colony, c. 1830–18500
Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s0
Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho0
How Washington Okumu Became the Mediator Who Saved the 1994 South African Elections0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House0
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Black Politician Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Black Politician . By Marti0
Presidential Address: Rethinking Histories of Southern Africa and the Contemporary Challenges0
The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe . By SIMUKA0
The Spirit of Ulster in the Cape of Good Hope: The South African Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1910–19140
‘The Great Trek Towards Nazism’: Anti-Fascism and the Radical Left in South Africa During the Early Apartheid Era0
Counterinsurgency’s Undead Prose: A Reply to Janet Cherry’s Review of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa0
‘The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance, and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate0
Colonial Intrusion and the Dispute over Leadership of the Nzama People in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 19280
Book Forum0
The Klip River Affair in Zulu Policy, 1846–18470
Bill Freund, 6 July 1944 – 17 August 20200
From Plough to Entrepreneurship: A History of African Entrepreneurs in Evaton 1905–1960s0
Vredeskoppie and the Afrikaner Nationalist Myth of Benevolent Paternalism0
The Internal Settlement and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in Patriotic Front Propaganda0
The land is ours - South Africa's first black lawyers and the birth of constitutionalism. TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI. Penguin Books, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN: 978 1 77609 285 7. Lawfare - Judging politics in South0
Flags, Stamps and Coats of Arms: Symbols and the Making of Identity in Southern Rhodesia0
From Sharpeville to Rivonia, 1959–1964. A Personal View of Resistance in South Africa from the Letters of Clare & James Currey0
The Cost of Union: Smuts and the Price for the Rhodesian ‘Province’0
Keynote Address: Mobility, Globalisation, and the Policing of Citizenship and Belonging in the Twenty-First Century0
Segregation in the Reserves: The Winter Family in Sekhukhuneland 1913–19480
Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala . By JOEL CABRITA. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2023. 344 pp. ISBN 0
The Tribal Conciliar Experiment and Marginalisation of Local Public Opinion in Botswana, 1948–19570
The Dawn of South African–Portuguese Cooperation: From 1950 to 19610
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee0
Boxing in Cape Town and Surrounds, 1932–19350
The Lessons of Propaganda: The Role of the Film Kalushi in (Re)Writing the Legacy of Solomon Mahlangu0
Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola0
‘We Must Analyse Where Our National Interest Lies and not Worry too Much about Other People’s Domestic Policies’: Richard M. Nixon and Apartheid South Africa in the Early 1970s0
A Reluctant Rebel: John Msikinya and Secession at Aliwal North0
What Can We Learn from Mrs. Ples? – The 75th Anniversary of a Fossil0
The Mass Action Campaign of 1992: The Ciskei Crisis and the African National Congress in Transition0
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures0
Capricious Patronage and Captive Land: A Socio-political History of Resettlement and Change in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1960 to 20050
Made in Africa: Tapestry and the Topography of Swedish Philanthropy in Southern Africa0
Forced Migration, Resistance and Adaptation: The Madheruka Cotton Production and Differentiation in Pre-Irrigation Era Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1950–19670
The Peace Deal: The Formation of the Ingonyama Trust and the IFP Decision to Join South Africa’s 1994 Elections0
Flouting apartheid rules: Stanley Matthews and South African football, 1955–19880
International Beef Packing in the Age of Empire: LEMCO in South West Africa, 1906– c .19400
Anzelm Dzwonkowski’s Short Description of the Dutch Cape Colony (1789, 1793)0
Historical Dictionary of South Africa Historical Dictionary of South Africa . By CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS and PETER LIMB. Third edition.La0
‘The Involvement of the State Had to Be a Secret’: The Impact of Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail Exposés on the Apartheid Government and its Conservative Apologists in the United States0
‘Open Fascism Has Appeared on this Continent’: South Africa’s Independent Press and Anti-Fascism, 1937–19470
‘Gangsters by the Bioscope’: South African Indian Cinemas as Spaces of Becoming during Early Apartheid0
Shifting Trends in Nursing Education in High Commission Territories: The Case of Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1948–19670
Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism0
A Transnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho–South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 19940
Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War0
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space : Genealogies, Discourses, an0
The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Development The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Develop0
South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich’s International Enemies0
Insidious Dispossession and Defence of Land Ownership – Tsolo Farms, 1880–19170
Revisioning the Ethnographic Photograph0
Three Wise Monkeys0
Teaching Texts0
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa . By Noah Ta0
Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 1971 Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 19710
The Bhisho March and Massacre of September 1992: The ‘Leipzig Option’ and the Meanings of Mass Action in the South African Transition0
The Jester in Verwoerd’s Court: English Press Cartoons, 1959–19650
The Disappearance of the Msane Chiefdom, 1820s to 1890s0
75 Not Out: Reflections0
National Socialism, Colonialism and Antifascist Memory Politics in Postwar Dutch–South African Exchanges0
Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984)0
Positioning in Turbulent Times: Ottoman Intellectuals and the South African War (1899–1902)0
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War In Africa: A Bridge Between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988–1994 US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold 0
Coffee House Conversations: Historians on the Current Moment0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty . By MICHAEL CARDO. Johannesburg: Jonathan0
Migrant Labour after apartheid: The Inside Story Migrant Labour after apartheid: The Inside Story . Edited by Leslie J. Bank, Dorrit P0
Colonisation and Smallpox Response in the South-Western Transkei, 1878–18960
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa 0
Prelude to Unilateralism: Foreclosed Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 19500
Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize in 2019: ‘Small Grains, Small Gains’: African Peasant Small Grains Production and Marketing in Zimbabwe during the Colonial Peri0
German ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Internment Camps in South Africa in the Second World War0
The Boipatong Massacre of 1992: Traces, Silences, and Truth(s)0
Beyond FearBeyond Fear. By Ebrahim Ebrahim. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022. xi + 300 pp. ISBN 978 1 4314 3232 5.0
Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire0
The Impact of the Anglo–Boer War on Russian Marxists before the October Revolution0
Reconstructing a Socio-Political Narrative of High School Athletics in the Oppressed Communities of the Greater Cape Peninsula, South Africa, 1973–19940
Book Forum0
‘A sin against our civilisation’: South Africa’s 1927 Immorality Act and the Criminalisation of Interracial Love, 1920–19480
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