An academic journal publishing leading research concerning the history, economics, politics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa
Publisher's web page: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjss20
Blog: https://jsas.blog/
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📢 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.
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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....
📢 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...
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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
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📢 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:
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📢 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....
📢 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...
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Mining 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.
The first issue of JEAS volume 20 is now online!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjea20/2...
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The 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....
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Duncan Money
Duncan Money
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...
