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Journal of Southern African Studies

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Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, politics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa

📢📢New article alert!! Genevieve Klein examines the policy context within which the #FeesMustFall protests happened, showing how the ANC & the state created high expectations in the university sector but failed to increase funding to meet the expectations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


New article alert!! Michael Eastman and Harvey M Feinberg examine the extent to which Black South Africans were able to get impartial hearings in the courts in the 1920s and 30s, as well as the factors that made this possible tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


Congratulations to Sam Farrell for winning the 2025 Terence Ranger prize.. The prize is awarded to the best article by a first-time author in the Journal of Southern African Studies in the previous year. Please click the link below to access the article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog


The JSAS editors were sad to learn of the sudden death of Martin L. Boston aged only 41. Boston was Assistant Professor at California State University & editor in chief of the journal African and Black Diaspora @ABD_Journal. Our condolences to his family - may he rest in peace.

In this new article, Martin L. Boston explores how the South African edition of Drum magazine covered the South African singer, Miriam Makeba, prior to and as she left South Africa for the world’s stage in 1959, and into the mid-1960s. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…



In this new article, Liam James Kingsley examines the health services and infrastructure in SWAPO exile camps and analyses the significance of international aid in the provision of medical care, as well as the process by which it was procured tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


New article alert!! C. Cramer & J. Sender analyse evidence on the effects of investments in high-value agricultural exports, in this specific case, the production of blueberries, on the well-being of poor women in Bojanala District, South Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


In this new article, Martin L. Boston explores how the South African edition of Drum magazine covered the South African singer, Miriam Makeba, prior to and as she left South Africa for the world’s stage in 1959, and into the mid-1960s. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


New article alert!! Luvuyo Wotshela's study outlines the trials that faced the Ciskei homeland in the democratic transition through to the first decade of its reintegration into the ‘new’ South Africa and its incorporation into the Eastern Cape Province. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


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Happy to share that my review of Deborah James’ monograph, Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa, has been published by the @JSAS_Editors tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Understanding post-apartheid indebtedness: an ethnography of money and social aspiration in South...

Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2025)


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Conference in Lisbon on '50 years of independence of the Portuguese colonies in Africa'. Speaking again on my forthcoming @JSAS_Editors paper on the relationship between MK & FAPLA soldiers in early 1980s #Angola & how mutual mistrust fuelled the 1984 mutiny.

drjustinpearce's tweet image. Conference in Lisbon on '50 years of independence of the Portuguese colonies in Africa'. Speaking again on my forthcoming @JSAS_Editors paper on the relationship between MK & FAPLA soldiers in early 1980s #Angola & how mutual mistrust fuelled the 1984 mutiny.

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Nice detail from Khumisho Moguerane about the very different experiences of colonialism in Southern Africa. Her article on the writer Noni Jabavu opens by noting her father was a renowed classicist and professor and her grandfather a newspaper editor: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Apartheid’s Moral Scaffolds: Personhood and the Making of Difference from Below along the Southern...

This article explores how moral communities that emerged along frontiers of settlement in southern Africa mediated colonial categories of difference. The existing literature’s emphasis on assimilat...


New article alert!! In this study, Rebekah Lee uses ‘crash narratives’ to shed light on the wider historicised and contested dynamics around the nature and meaning of road danger and accidental death in South Africa. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


If you're at #ecas2025 in Prague & have a Southern Africa paper you'd like to publish, senior editor @drjustinpearce & chair Rebekah Lee are here. We'll be at the Meet the Editors event Friday 17.30-19.00, Arts Faculty 3rd floor. Or contact us via ECAS website. @TandF_Africa


New article alert!! In this article, Franziska Rueedi examines the Hostel Peace Initiative in the greater Johannesburg areas during the final years of Apartheid and uses it to shed new light on the democratic transition in South Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


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