South African Historical Journal, Volume 73, Issue 2 (2021)

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SPECIAL ISSUE: 2019 SAHS CONFERENCE SPECIAL ISSUE - Trails, Traditions, Trajectories - Rethinking Perspectives on Southern African Histories

Editorial Collective Introductory Note

Editorial
Editorial Collective Introductory Note
Sandra Swart, Prinisha Badassy, Thula Simpson & Laura Phillips
Pages: 221-222
Published online: 06 Oct 2021
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Presidential Address

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Presidential Address: Rethinking Histories of Southern Africa and the Contemporary Challenges
Delivered at the 27th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, Rhodes University, 25 June 2019
Enocent Msindo
Pages: 223-240
Published online: 24 Aug 2021
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Keynote Address

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Keynote Address: Mobility, Globalisation, and the Policing of Citizenship and Belonging in the Twenty-First Century
Delivered at the 27th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, Rhodes University, 24 June 2019
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Pages: 241-256
Published online: 31 Aug 2021
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Best Student Essay Prize

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Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize in 2019: ‘Small Grains, Small Gains’: African Peasant Small Grains Production and Marketing in Zimbabwe during the Colonial Period, c.1890–1980
Bryan Umaru Kauma
Pages: 257-287
Published online: 01 Jul 2021
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Articles

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How Washington Okumu Became the Mediator Who Saved the 1994 South African Elections
Nancy J. Jacobs
Pages: 288-317
Published online: 16 Apr 2021
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The Peace Deal: The Formation of the Ingonyama Trust and the IFP Decision to Join South Africa’s 1994 Elections
Hilary Lynd
Pages: 318-360
Published online: 19 May 2021
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Beyond the Pale: The ‘Foreigner’ in the Politics of the ‘Frontier’ in the Fish River Marches of the British Cape Colony, c. 1830–1850
Paddy O'Halloran
Pages: 361-380
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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‘Too Unsavoury for Our Fastidious Tastes’: Unmarried Motherhood in South Africa’s Mother City, Cape Town, 1910–1948
Laura Richardson
Pages: 381-405
Published online: 02 Jun 2021
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Negotiated Partition of South Africa – An Idea and its History (1920s–1980s)
Jakob Zollmann
Pages: 406-434
Published online: 06 Jun 2021
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The Jester in Verwoerd’s Court: English Press Cartoons, 1959–1965
Ria van der Merwe
Pages: 435-461
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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Forced Migration, Resistance and Adaptation: The Madheruka Cotton Production and Differentiation in Pre-Irrigation Era Sanyati, Zimbabwe, 1950–1967
Mark Nyandoro
Pages: 462-493
Published online: 19 Apr 2021
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Flouting apartheid rules: Stanley Matthews and South African football, 1955–1988
Chris Bolsmann
Pages: 494-514
Published online: 19 Mar 2021
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‘Literacy, Armed Struggle and Black Consciousness’: The Evolution of NAYO, 1973–1976
Toivo Asheeke
Pages: 515-532
Published online: 30 Aug 2021
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Roundtable

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King Zwelithini and the Historians
Jill E. Kelly, Jabulani Sithole & Liz Timbs
Pages: 533-544
Published online: 22 Jul 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa
By MXOLISI R. MCHUNU. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press, 2020. 276 pp. ISBN 978 1 86914 462 3.
Gerhard Maré
Pages: 545-549
Published online: 19 Mar 2021
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Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception: Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma
By GERHARD MARÉ, UKZN Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2020. xii + 103 pp. ISBN 978 1 869 14456 2.
Mbongiseni Buthelezi
Pages: 549-551
Published online: 28 Jun 2021
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Historian: An Autobiography
By HERMANN GILIOMEE. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 368 pp., ISBN 978-0-8139-4091-5.
Gary Baines
Pages: 552-555
Published online: 14 Mar 2021
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Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters
Edited by BRIAN WILLAN and SABATA-MPHO MOKAE. Cape Town: Historical Publications Southern Africa, 2020. xxi + 359 pp. ISBN 978 0 9947207 6 4.
Peter Limb
Pages: 555-559
Published online: 16 Apr 2021
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Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War
Edited by IAN VAN DER WAAG. Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2020. xv + 359 pp. ISBN 978 1 928480 90 7.
Rodney Warwick & Chris Saunders
Pages: 559-561
Published online: 12 May 2021
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An Historian’s Passage to Africa. An Autobiography
By BILL FREUND. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021. 288 pp. illus. ISBN 978-1-77614-672-7.
Chris Saunders
Pages: 561-564
Published online: 05 Jul 2021
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Obituary

Obituary
Bill Freund, 6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020
Robert Morrell
Pages: 565-571
Published online: 25 Aug 2021
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