Journal of Southern African Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Southern African Studies 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System18
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 195213
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre 9
The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique8
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State8
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis7
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–627
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 19527
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health6
From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined6
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid6
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa6
The Social Impact of Climate Change in Southern Africa: Introduction6
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)6
‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa5
Vigilante democracy: popular justice in contemporary South Africa5
The Role of Transdisciplinary Formats in the Awareness Creation of (Social) Climate Change Impacts: A Namibian Perspective5
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa4
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India4
Young Merina Elites Facing the Uncertainties of the 1880s: Island Solidarity as an Answer?4
Editorial4
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s4
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian3
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland3
Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia3
The personal–local as national history3
Editorial3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 19943
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa3
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation3
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe3
‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe3
Editorial2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–19972
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony2
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–18342
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 19522
Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History2
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics2
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out2
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania2
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians2
Editorial2
The human impact on big game in Botswana 1
Networks of Solidarity among Former Marxist Activists in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa1
Donal Lowry, 1959–20221
The South African state and the regulation and management of mining waste1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community1
‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’: Subnationalism and the Growth and Evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in South West Africa, 1921–19241
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state 1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province1
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 19801
Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania1
A Whole New Ball Game: The Historiography of Sport in South Africa1
The micropolitics of a bantustan1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election1
Dangerous Relations: Everyday Storytelling and the Dilemmas of Moral Discernment in Rural Zambia1
Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique 1
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–20181
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract1
Intellectuals, Revolution and Literature in Nationalist Armed Struggle in Angola and Mozambique, 1961–19741
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–19381
Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–19631
Reading is the Weapon: Books and the Making of MK as a Political Army1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA1
Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique0
Navigating Insecurities in Foreign Territory: The Experiences of Zimbabwean Irregular Immigrants at a South African Informal Settlement0
Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–19310
Editorial0
Floor Crossing and the Motivations of Members of Parliament in Zambia, 1991–20160
‘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 Collection0
‘Looking back, I know that I was not a man that day’: Nelson Mandela and the Ambiguities of Tradition in South Africa0
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance0
Can a dissident be a citizen?0
The Causes and Impact of Famo Music Gang Violence in Lesotho0
South Africa at the Tate: Searching for a National School and a National Identity0
Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining Control and Restructuring the Labour Process while Maintaining Racial Order at South African Gold Mines, 1913–19220
Beaches, Hotels and ‘LM Prawns’: Tourist Circulation and the Politics of Race in Settler Colonial Mozambique ( c. 1952–1975)0
Youth Dreams, State Repression and Military Mobility: Tracing the Origins of ZAPU's Liberation Army0
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho0
Elite Contestation in South Africa, 2006–2018: The Making and Unmaking of a Power Elite0
Writing David Livingstone Back into South African History0
The People and Climate Change: How Experts and Communities Disagree on Climate Change Impact in South Africa and Botswana0
Geography and nation building0
‘Farming God’s Way’: Evangelical Cosmologies of Land and ‘Crisis’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa0
Editorial0
Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s0
Liberation Movements and Battlefield Solidarity: Frelimo and ZANU Soldiers Fighting Side by Side in Rhodesia0
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid0
UNITA’s Post-War Parliamentary Elite: From a Wartime Defeat to a Nationwide Party in Angola0
Editorial0
Making the Best of a Setback: The Fuel Conservation Programme of the Vorster Government in the 1970s0
Reading Between the Lines: Miriam Makeba’s Shifting Liberation Politics in Drum Magazine, 1957–19640
Beyond Chameleons? On Malawian Politicians, Anti-Politicians and the Motivations and Meanings of Political Life0
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653–19000
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania0
The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign0
The Ethnic Distribution of the Enslaved Population of Southern Mozambique following the Mfecane: An Analysis of the Registers of Slaves and Libertos of Lourenço Marques 0
Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance0
‘Black Gold’ and Verticality: Geology, Labour and Mining Operations in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District0
Points of Entry into Zimbabwean Post-Independence Politics: Mugabe, the Military or the Social SubalternsStephen Chan, Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (London, I.B.0
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa0
Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa0
Beyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party’s Transnational Connections and its Political and Ideological Pragmatism, 1952–19700
Getting under the skin of Luanda0
‘A Necessary Evil?’: (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 19730
‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa0
African Agency in Democracy Promotion: The African Union and Election Observation in Malawi0
Editorial0
Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–19890
Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia0
A Fractured State: Local Powers and Mining Politics in Rural North-Western Zambia0
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar0
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel0
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique0
‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the War against UNITA0
Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–19750
Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ0
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review0
Thinking Circulations in Southern Africa and Beyond through Artistic Practice0
The making of South African revolutionaries 0
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi0
Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?0
Obituary0
Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern African Frontier0
The Enduring Legacy of British-Promulgated Institutions on Civil Liberties and Governance in Post-Independence Malawi: An Analysis Grounded in Historical Institutionalism0
Contesting the State in Malawi: Covid-19 and the Quest for Inclusive Democracy0
The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa – Introduction0
Editorial0
Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions0
Towards New Proximities: A Conversation on Photographic Encounters Between Southern Africa and Mexico0
‘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, 1968–19760
Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s0
Malawian Democracy Beyond Patrons and Clients: Distribution in Parliamentary Elections and the Moral Grounds of Democratic Relationships0
Western notation of mbira music and the challenge of cultural authenticity0
Replacing Customs Revenue with Taxes on Income and Domestic Consumption: The South African Experience0
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town0
Load Shedding Experience, Gender and Morality in Zambia, 2015–20240
Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?0
‘Certainly not! … It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate0
African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)0
Campus Radio in the Capital City: A Brief History of Radio Tuks ( c. 1976 to 1996)0
Crocodile Hunting in the Okavango Swamps: White Hunters and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Late Colonial Botswana0
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap0
Adaptation Options for Climate Change in Botswana: An Overview0
African Resistance to the 1887 Parliamentary Voters’ Registration Act0
In the shadows of formal education0
Editorial0
William Beinart: A Personal Appreciation0
Understanding post-apartheid indebtedness: an ethnography of money and social aspiration in South Africa 0
Post-apartheid whiteness and unlearning racism0
Faku’s Tusks: Colonialism, Resistance and Accommodation in Early 20th‐Century South Africa0
Revealing deep waters: continuing the literary history of Namibia0
‘It took courage to die in Angola’: Umkhonto we Sizwe’s War versus UNITA, 1975–890
State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883–19610
Stakeholder Power and Local Community Participation in Public-Sector Megaprojects: The Case of Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, South Africa0
‘We came at the wrong time’: How Foreign Immigrants Experience the Precarious Insideness of ‘Safety’ in a Johannesburg Township0
Opting Out: Botswana’s Limited Negotiating Power on Chinese Finance0
Editorial practice and the presentation of Nambian genocide history 0
‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum , 1951–19600
Recovering the voices of African prisoners of war0
Cooking, the Crisis and Cuisines: Household Economies and Food Politics in Harare’s High-Density Suburbs, 1997–20200
Luanda: the many facets of an African city undergoing transformation0
Academic Journals and Activism: Agenda and Transformation in Durban in the 1980s and 1990s0
Finding Out Faster: Pre-Survey Scoping for a Study of Deprivation in Majakaneng, North West Province, South Africa0
Obscenity and pseudo-science in the making of apartheid0
Commanding disorder: rebellion and repression in apartheid South Africa Hugh Macmillan, Chris Hani (Athens, Ohio Un0
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa0
Correction0
A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–19590
Investigating the Small World in Madagascar: The Political Elites at the Core0
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique0
Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–19650
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts0
Editorial0
Editorial0
On the afterlives of colonialism0
The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order0
Introduction: Are Parliamentary Elites in Africa also Power Elites? Researching the Origins and Consequences of Varying Elite Configurations0
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana0
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia0
How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos0
Numerical Labour Market Flexibility in the Gauteng City-Region: Measuring the Extent of Non-Standard Forms of Employment, 1993–20210
Editorial0
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice0
‘He’s black; I’ll speak to him in Chilapalapa’: Prickly Proximity and the Slow Death of a Colonial Pidgin in Zambia0
God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi0
Apartheid’s hidden historiesMignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., pape0
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola0
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape0
Editorial0
Turning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 AD0
Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? Gift Wasambo Kayira, The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting0
Editorial0
The Cultural Significance of Cattle in Owambo, Namibia: Cattle People, People-Cattle0
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines0
An Obvious Plant: Craig Williamson’s Role in Sabotaging the Anti-Apartheid Struggle0
Editorial0
One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa0
The Game Factor: Tanganyikan Rinderpest Campaigns, Fence Ecology and the Wildlife Threat to Southern Africa, 1938–19560
The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis?0
Asymmetries of Power and Capacity: The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) as an Instrument of Resource Nationalism, 1994–20210
A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 19700
Regime Security Threats and African Agency: The Case of Zimbabwe0
Difference in whiteness: interrogating the idea of homogenous white communities in southern Africa 0
The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe0
‘Kale twale ikala bwino’ – life was better in the old days0
Circulations: Mobility, Fluidity, Impediments and Implications0
A Visible Problem0
The ‘Reckless’ White Father: The Violent Deaths of Farmworkers in South Africa and their Saliences0
Explaining Party Switching in an Institutionalised Party System: The Case of South Africa0
Elite Party Formation amid Fragmentation: The Case of Joyce Banda’s People’s Party in Malawi0
Memories of an ambiguous federation legacyGeoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Pr0
International Solidarity at the Grassroots: A Case Study of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement0
‘On Standby’: Malagasy Social Relatedness between ‘On’ and ‘Off’0
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities0
Obituary0
Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe0
Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions0
Sisonke: A Critical Appraisal of South Africa’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trial0
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations0
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia0
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