Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026📢 New Article! How did apartheid shape musical knowledge? Mieke Struwig examines the South African Music Encyclopedia, revealing how its structure and silences reproduced racial and disciplinary exclusions. Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 041
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026📢 New Article! How did disease shape African experiences of WWI? Mazimba examines multi-morbidity among African porters in Northern Rhodesia, focusing on dysentery, bubonic plague and jiggers, and the healthcare responses developed by affected communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 055
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026📢 New Issue! JSAS Volume 52, Issue 2 is out now. This issue explores labour, mobility, gender, ideology & knowledge production across southern Africa, from Zimbabwean mining & women’s work to kinship, migration & urban development. Read the issue & editorial: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...tandfonline.comJournal of Southern African StudiesVolume 52, Issue 2 of Journal of Southern African Studies 011
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026📢 New Article! How do socialism and speculative capitalism shape urban Mozambique? Nielsen and Brandes examine Vila Sol in Maputo, showing how socialist-era planning and neoliberal investment continue to shape contemporary urban development. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 021
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026JSAS statement in support of Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa jsas.blog/statement-in... 066
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026📢 New Article! How did geology shape Zimbabwe’s chromite mining industry? Joseph Mujere examines cooperative chromite mining along the Great Dyke, showing how miners adapted their practices to the geological challenges of narrow and faulted ore seams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 062
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026📢 New Article! How do remittances shape urban life in Malawi? Dhakal, McCordic & Frayne examine how remittances affect housing, education & livelihoods for migrant-sending households in Mzuzu, while highlighting the vulnerabilities of relying on migration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 000
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026📢 New Article! How do socialism and speculative capitalism shape urban Mozambique? Nielsen and @nikolaibrandes.bsky.social examine Maputo’s Vila Sol, showing how socialist-era planning and neoliberal investment continue to shape contemporary urban development. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 082
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesNikolai Brandes @nikolaibrandes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Morten Nielsen and I have just published an article in @jsas-journal.bsky.social on Maputo’s first gated communities and the neoliberalization of Mozambique’s socialist legacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comIdeological Resonances: Gated Communities as Awkward Symbioses between Collapsed Socialism and Speculative Capitalism in Urban MozambiqueIn 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... 063
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026📢 New Article! How did poetry build solidarity for Angola’s liberation struggle? Scaraggi examines Mário Pinto de Andrade’s use of literature, publishing and transnational networks to connect Angolan activism across Africa, Europe and beyond. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026📢 New Article! Was Cape Town a male-breadwinner society before WWII? Using a 1938–39 household survey, Amy Rommelspacher examines the wages and working lives of white and Coloured women, revealing how low wages shaped women’s work and family life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026📢 New Article! How did eucalyptus become central to Portugal's colonial project in Angola? Vasconcelos traces how the Benguela Railway drove the expansion of eucalyptus plantations, reshaping Angola's landscapes through colonial science, forestry and empire. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 030
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026📢 New Issue! JSAS Volume 52, Issue 1 This issue explores politicised identities, extraction and environmental change, and new histories of liberation movements across southern Africa, with articles spanning Mauritius, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and Lesotho. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/c...tandfonline.comJournal of Southern African StudiesVolume 52, Issue 1 of Journal of Southern African Studies 083
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026📢 New Article! How do women experience toxicity in artisanal gold mining? @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social examines women's encounters with mercury in Zimbabwe's Mazowe goldfields, showing how toxicity extends beyond pollution to gendered labour and survival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 012
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026📢 New Article! What can stories of wandering spirits tell us about social change? Zwane explores haunting narratives in post-apartheid KwaNdebele, arguing they reveal changing kinship, migration and the enduring importance of family and ritual. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026That trade-off is central to Ramtohul’s argument, it delivered long-term political stability, but by freezing those 1968 ethno-religious categories, it made it much harder for a unified national identity to develop over time. Thanks for reading and engaging with the article! 100
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026📢 New Article! How did UNITA emerge as Angola’s third liberation movement? Höring and Ribeiro revisit UNITA’s founding, revealing the alliances, negotiations and rivalries that shaped its emergence between 1964 and 1966. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 041
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026📢 New Article! Can constitutions protect diversity without freezing identity? Ramtohul examines Mauritius’s Independence Constitution, arguing that while it promoted political stability, it also entrenched identities that continue to shape nation-building. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 111
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026📢 New Article! Do extractive mega-projects create development or deepen inequality? Mattioli compares mining in Tete & LNG development in Cabo Delgado, showing how communities experienced dispossession, organised resistance & challenged extractivist development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 164
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026📢 New Article! How do liberation movements continue to shape politics after conflict ends? Whang revisits the history of Lesotho’s Liberation Army, arguing it was more than a proxy force & tracing its lasting impact on Lesotho’s political landscape. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 053
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026📢 New Article! How did ideas travel across liberation movements during the Cold War? Wetzel traces the journey of the Frelimo Youth League from Soviet classrooms to Mozambique’s liberation struggle, showing how political realities shaped which ideas endured. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesJustin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Best conference ever? #Zimbabwe & Zimbabweans have such a central place in Southern African historiography that having #SAHS in Harare was a necessary acknowledgement of that. Wonderful finally to meet so many people, mostly Zimbabwean, whom I've worked with virtually but never met in person. 1/5 182
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesJustin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 27/06/20262/5 Particularly good to meet Methembe Hadebe & launch the special issue of @jsas-journal.bsky.social to which we both contributed: 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa'. We even made it onto ZBC News! Read the special issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5... 241
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026📢 New Article! Who gets remembered in liberation histories? Mazarire traces ZANU’s Ghana-trained insurgents, examining how some fighters became central to liberation memory while others faded from view. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 142
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Launching JSAS special issue 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa' at #SAHS2026 in Harare. L to R chair Diana Jeater, author Methembe Hillary Hadebe, author and issue co-editor Justin Pearce with Methembe's two books. Read the issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5... 030
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026📢 New Article! How did ideas travel across liberation movements during the Cold War? Wetzel traces the journey of the Frelimo Youth League from Soviet classrooms to Mozambique’s liberation struggle, showing why some ideas took hold while others failed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 042
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026📢 New Article! How did women shape liberation struggles beyond activism and military roles? Ntombela examines the intellectual work of ANC and PAC women in exile, showing how organising, writing & political debate helped redefine ideas of women’s emancipation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 284
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026📢 New Article! How did women soldiers reshape military culture during Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle? McGregor, Alexander and Hadebe examine women’s training in ZPRA, revealing how female recruits challenged martial masculinity during the liberation war. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 012
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026📢 New Special Issue! How did southern Africa’s liberation armies imagine the future? Drawing on oral histories, memoirs & struggle archives, this SI explores how soldiers shaped ideas about freedom, gender, politics an&d solidarity from the 1960s to the 1980s. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5... 1116
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026📢 New Article ‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’ In this article, Hogan examines the growth, evolution & eventual decline of the UNIA in South West Africa from 1921-1924. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 120
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026📢 New Article! “Reading is the weapon.” Arianna Lissoni examines the role of books, libraries and political education in MK camps in Angola, showing how reading helped shape MK as a political army. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 000
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026📢 New Article! How did ZAPU’s liberation army emerge? Jocelyn Alexander traces how nationalist youth in 1960s Rhodesia, shaped by repression, revolutionary ideas and transnational military networks, came to imagine armed struggle. Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 082
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026📢 New Article! What did solidarity look like on the battlefield during Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle? Munguambe examines how Frelimo & ZANU soldiers fought side by side in Rhodesia, showing how differing military cultures created both friction and co-operation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 021
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026📢 New Issue! JSAS 51.5 brings together research on storytelling, power and resource politics across Southern Africa, from sport history and tax reform to farm violence, tourism and liberation struggles. Explore the issue and David Everatt's editorial here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...tandfonline.comJournal of Southern African StudiesVolume 51, Issue 5 of Journal of Southern African Studies 002
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The data was kindly provided by Krige Siebrits, co-author of an article on the history of income tax and customs in South Africa in @jsas-journal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comReplacing Customs Revenue with Taxes on Income and Domestic Consumption: The South African ExperienceThe 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... 021
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Mining taxes in South Africa as a % of overall revenue and in absolute terms. Two things stand out: a massive increase in the 1930s as the gold industry boomed, and a big increase after 1948 as the apartheid government sought new revenues to pay for harsher racial segregation. 271
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 03/04/2026📢 New Article! What happens when liberation movements fight in someone else’s war? @justinpearce.bsky.social examines MK’s time in Angola, showing how tensions with FAPLA & competing political visions shaped their alliance and contributed to the 1983–84 mutiny. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 064
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesJEAS @jeasjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The first issue of JEAS volume 20 is now online! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjea20/2... 063
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesJustin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 02/04/2026New article connects Angolan & South African Cold War historiographies, examining the incompatible views of malcontent MPLA & ANC troops who fought on the same side during ANC exile in Angola, particularly on the question of whether UNITA were compatriots or foes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the War against UNITACamps 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... 053
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Succinct early history of gold in Southern Africa and the role of long-distance connections in this article. The decision by the Fatimid rulers of Egypt to make gold currency their standard measure of value in 969 caused huge demand for gold in southeast Africa: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTurning South African History Upside Down: Ivory and Gold Production, the Indian Ocean Trading System and the Shaping of Southern African Society, 600–1900 ADA 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... 083
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 New Book Review What does mining waste reveal about the limits of the state? Gabrielle Hecht’s “Residual Governance” examines how apartheid-era extraction continues to shape environmental injustice & why redress remains so difficult. Read Leah Burch’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 130
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026📢 New Book Review Why does mob justice persist in post-apartheid South Africa? Karl Kemp’s “Why We Kill” argues that vigilantism reflects not only state failure, but deeper social frustrations, wounded pride, & demands for justice. Read Vartavarian’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 002
Reposted by Journal of Southern African StudiesAlex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Awards nominations are open for African Politics! Please share widely! @jsteend.bsky.social @stephaniewanga.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @jsas-journal.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social @thelauram16.bsky.social @woldense.bsky.social 21817
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026📢 New Book Review How can we understand a city through its “skin”? António Tomás's "In the Skin of the City" traces Luanda’s transformation from colonial segregation (musseque/asfalto) to postcolonial fragmentation & expansion. Read Gilson Lázaro’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 011
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026📢 New Article! Why are the violent deaths of farmworkers so often overlooked? weNkosi & Rafaely analyse media reporting on killings of farmworkers in South Africa, revealing how these deaths are depoliticised and framed as accidental or disciplinary. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The Water Emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: A Climate Change or Governance Crisis? Umejesi & Cheteni analyse whether the city’s water crisis stems primarily from climate pressures or governance failure. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 000
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique Sarita Monjane Henriksen investigates how language shapes disaster preparedness and communication in multilingual contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 100
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The People and Climate Change: How Experts and Communities Disagree on Climate Change Impact in South Africa and Botswana Jörn Ahrens examines tensions between expert assessments and community understandings of climate change impacts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 100
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The Role of Transdisciplinary Formats in the Awareness Creation of (Social) Climate Change Impacts: A Namibian Perspective Lüttich & Riedel explore how transdisciplinary approaches can help raise awareness of the social dimensions of climate change in Namibia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 100
Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Adaptation Options for Climate Change in Botswana: An Overview Gabriel Faimau & Lebogang Basimane examine possible pathways for climate adaptation in Botswana, highlighting policy challenges and opportunities for responding to environmental change. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 100