Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 49, Issue 5-6 (2023)

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Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 49, Issue 5-6 (2023)

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Part-Special Issue: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Colin Bundy
Pages: 727-732
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Part-Special Issue: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mignonne Breier
Pages: 733-742
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s
Leslie Bank
Pages: 743-764
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952
Hlengiwe Ndlovu
Pages: 765-780
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952
Mignonne Breier
Pages: 781-804
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963
Katie Carline
Pages: 805-822
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952
William Beinart & Colin Bundy
Pages: 823-840
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Liberation Struggles, Exile and Transnational Dynamics

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A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970
Lieneke de Visser
Pages: 841-860
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA
Lazlo Passemiers
Pages: 861-887
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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Rural Production, Rural Labour and Rural Identities

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Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965
Erik Green & Mark Nyandoro
Pages: 889-906
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers?
Joshua Bell & Sally Matthews
Pages: 907-925
Published online: 13 May 2024
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‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana
Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa
Pages: 927-946
Published online: 16 May 2024
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In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony
Francois Johannes Cleophas
Pages: 947-964
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa
Thembisa Waetjen & Perside Ndandu
Pages: 965-985
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development
Yanyin Zi
Pages: 987-1002
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions
Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru
Pages: 1003-1021
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa
Gary Kynoch
Pages: 1023-1039
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign
Ralph Shield
Pages: 1041-1065
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe, 1942–2023
Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Pages: 1067-1068
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Book Review
Apartheid’s hidden histories
Mignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2021), 304 pp., paperback, £38.68, R380, ISBN 978-0624091141; e-book, £8.74, R380, ISBN 978-0624091158
Jeff Peires
Pages: 1069-1071
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Politics and science in South Africa
William Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2021), v + 406 pp., hardback, £65.79, US$84.99, ISBN 978-1108837088; paperback, £22.49, US$29.99, ISBN 978-1108940085; e-book, £21.37, US$28.49, ISBN 978-1108837085
Jacob Dlamini
Pages: 1071-1072
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Memories of an ambiguous federation legacy
Geoffrey Bond, edited by Roger Stringer, How Drowned Was My Valley: Exploring the Zambezi before Lake Kariba (Harare, Weaver Press, 2022), xii + 354 pp., paperback, £22.93, US$21.53, ISBN 978-1779224224; e-book, £6.55, US$7.99 ISBN 1779224222
Euan Nisbet
Pages: 1073-1075
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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The politics of faith
Caroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2023), viii + 218 pp., paperback, £35.93, US$38.50, CHF32.00, ISBN 978-3-906927-37-4; e-book options, CHF22.00, ISBN 978-3-906927-38-1, ISSN 2297-444X
Jean Comaroff
Pages: 1075-1077
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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