Volume 52, Issue 2 of Journal of Southern African Studies

In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a surge in large-scale urban infrastructure and housing projects driven by speculative capitalism. Often financed through public–private partnershi...

Volume 52, Issue 1 of Journal of Southern African Studies

Volume 51, Issue 5 of Journal of Southern African Studies

The world is currently witnessing two contrasting economic policy experiments. On the one hand, President Donald Trump aims to replace other tax revenues with tariff revenues. All empirical evidenc...

Camps in Angola were crucial training grounds for the South African liberation army Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) from the late 1970s and through the 1980s, a period when the Angolan state army, FAPLA (Po...

A focus on the colonial period has created a foreshortened history of South Africa which has been further blinkered by the reification of national boundaries. This perspective has limited the under...