Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 48, Issue 5 (2022)

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Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 48, Issue 5 (2022)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Colin Bundy
Pages: 759-764
Published online: 08 Dec 2022
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The South African State: Under Pressure at Central and Local Levels

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High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out
Nicoli Nattrass & Jeremy Seekings
Pages: 765-785
Published online: 14 Sep 2022
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Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa
David Everatt & Marius Pieterse
Pages: 787-804
Published online: 20 Sep 2022
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Memory, Narrative and Identity

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Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonisation of Namibia
Fabian Krautwald
Pages: 805-823
Published online: 19 Oct 2022
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‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa
Danelle van Zyl-Hermann & Rafael Verbuyst
Pages: 825-842
Published online: 08 Dec 2022
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The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts
Lena Englund
Pages: 843-859
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Chinese Interests, Investments and Influence in Southern Africa

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China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia
Hangwei Li, Dominik Kopiński & Ian Taylor (1969–2021)
Pages: 861-882
Published online: 08 Dec 2022
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Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho
Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Pages: 883-900
Published online: 13 Oct 2022
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Research Articles

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Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980
Rudo Mudiwa
Pages: 901-919
Published online: 13 Sep 2022
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The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town
Fernanda Pinto de Almeida
Pages: 921-937
Published online: 14 Sep 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India
Dilip M. Menon
Pages: 939-940
Published online: 23 Sep 2022
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From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation
Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin, Ot Kaira do Keiptauna, Afrika glazami russkogo cheloveka (Moscow, Institut Afriki RAN, 2022), 284 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-5-91298-269-9.
Daria Zelenova
Pages: 940-943
Published online: 23 Sep 2022
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Black soldiers of the apartheid state: pawns, agents, neither or both?
Lennart Bolliger, (Athens, Ohio University Press, 2021), 292 pp., hardback, £64.00, US$80.00, ISBN 978-0-82142-455-1; paperback, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0-82142-511-4; e-book, £60.80, US$79.99, ISBN 978-0-82144-741-3.
Mesrob Vartavarian
Pages: 943-944
Published online: 20 Sep 2022
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The political and cultural life of the dead in Zimbabwe
Joost Fontein, the Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000–2020: Bones, Rumours and Spirits (Woodbridge, James Currey, 2022), 366 pp., Hardback, £75.00, US$115.00, ISBN 978-1-84701-267-8; e-Book Options, £19.99, US$24.99, ISBN 978-1-80010-355-9 and ISBN 978-1-80010-356-6
Lesley Hatipone Machiridza
Pages: 945-947
Published online: 28 Oct 2022
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