Journal of Southern African Studies
@JSAS_Editors
Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, politics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa
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📢 New article! How can sociolinguistics strengthen disaster resilience? @SaritaMonjane's article on Mozambique argues that leveraging national languages in early-warning systems is critical for effective risk communication in multilingual contexts. ishortn.ink/article
📢📢New article! How did apartheid South Africa weather the 1973–74 oil crisis? Despite sanctions, no oil reserves, and global recession, the immediate impact was limited. This article explores why, and how the crisis was turned into political capital. l1nq.com/sv0oJ
Congratulations to Dr Garikai Chaunza, a postdoctoral fellow and part-time lecturer at Rhodes University, who has been awarded the Colin Murray Award for project 'Silencing Gukurahundi Victims: State Repression and the Erosion of Peace Journalism in Zimbabwe’. #jsas #colinmurray
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834, by Benjamin Crous doi.org/10.1080/030570… @BenjaminCrous @Stell_History #slavetrade #CapeColony
📢📢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…
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Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994
University funding, and in particular funding for students, has been a challenge in South Africa since the transition to democracy in 1994. In 2015–16 it came to the fore during extensive protests ...
In this new article, Anne Heffernan examines the implementation of segregated higher education at the University College of Natal between 1936 and 1959, and shows how the university was pivotal in shaping early apartheid educational policy in South Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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A Crooked Path to Apartheid Education: Segregating the University of Natal, 1936–1959
This article examines the implementation of a form of segregated higher education at the University College of Natal (later the University of Natal) between 1936 and 1959. It argues that this progr...
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…
JSAS board member Deborah James pays tribute to James Ferguson whose writing was 'both prolific & deeply considered': his view of development as an 'anti-politics machine' in #Lesotho, & disillusionment after 'expectations of modernity' on the #Copperbelt blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…
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…
Delighted to share the publication my article "Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa" in @JSAS_Editors It is open access and freely available at the link below. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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)
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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