John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, M. Mushonga, Grey Magaiza
{"title":"A Transnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho–South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994","authors":"John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, M. Mushonga, Grey Magaiza","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2052171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2052171","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This article traces and problematises the practice of stock theft to show how it has disproportionately impacted the poorest residents of the borderlands. Just as important as the actual practice of theft, however, is the construction of a perpetual ‘stock theft crisis’ on the border that has served the interests of those who are economically better off. The article therefore traces the history of theft, but also of the discourses around theft and thieves in the borderlands. Despite claims that stock theft is seemingly always on the rise, in many cases the sources dispute this. The contradictory and competing ideas about the practice of stock theft have helped to create and maintain the idea of a border in crisis that has historically served the ends of those who already have access to economic and political power.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46754976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Sharpeville to Rivonia, 1959–1964. A Personal View of Resistance in South Africa from the Letters of Clare & James Currey","authors":"Billy Keniston","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1973078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1973078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41639578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capricious Patronage and Captive Land: A Socio-political History of Resettlement and Change in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1960 to 2005","authors":"M. Kenyon","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1968021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1968021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43634317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Beef Packing in the Age of Empire: LEMCO in South West Africa, 1906–c.1940","authors":"Thaddeus Sunseri","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1965200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1965200","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From 1906, the Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company (LEMCO), parent of the Oxo and Fray Bentos brands, entered colonial Namibia as an export-oriented ranching and beef-processing enterprise, purchasing pastureland recently emptied by the Nama-Herero war, with the goal of replicating its successful South American operations in Africa. While LEMCO hoped to expand its markets in Germany and South Africa, the German colonial government anticipated that LEMCO would improve cattle and landscapes in South West Africa and offer German settlers an industrial outlet for their cattle. Unlike the major global beef suppliers, LEMCO relied on arid environments, using natural pastures and low-grade cattle, making Namibia supposedly ideal for its production. Yet ecological and human factors specific to South West Africa, including recurrent severe drought, sparse human populations, and international and transborder disease controls challenged these ambitions. While LEMCO’s multinational scope enabled it to navigate Anglo-German rivalries during the First World War, South African regional imperialism leading up to the Second World War, coupled with severe droughts during the interwar period, expedited the company’s exit from South West Africa in 1940. Its model of beef packing continued into the apartheid and post-independence periods.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47808171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tribal Conciliar Experiment and Marginalisation of Local Public Opinion in Botswana, 1948–1957","authors":"C. J. Makgala, Monageng Mogalakwe","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1995473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1995473","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indirect colonial rule in Botswana differed from practice elsewhere in British Africa because of the involvement of local public opinion expressed through the long-practiced kgotla forum. This had something to do with the ‘voluntary’ way Botswana fell under British colonial rule in 1885. However, problems sometimes arose, with aggressive agitation against and even violent confrontation with agents of the British colonial system. Starting in 1947 the British had plans for decolonising much of their African empire by introducing ‘democratic’ tribal conciliar systems for running local governments. But there were no immediate plans to do the same for Botswana until widespread turmoil, starting in the late 1940s, led to the introduction of the tribal conciliar system, even though the Tswana dikgosi (chiefs) wanted a more powerful legislative apparatus. Using archival sources this paper demonstrates how this development marginalised popular participation through the open kgotla.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45963694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Dictionary of South Africa","authors":"T. Lodge","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1960414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1960414","url":null,"abstract":"1. P. Noonan, They’re Burning the Churches: The Final Dramatic Events that Scuttled Apartheid (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2003); M. Chaskalson, K. Jochelson, and J. Seekings, ‘Rent Boycotts, the State, and the Transformation of the Urban Political Economy in South Africa’, Review of African Political Economy, 14, 40 (1987), 47– 64; S.P. Lekgoathi, ‘The United Democratic Front, Political Resistance and Local Struggles in the Vaal and West Rand Townships in the 1980s’, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa,Vol. 4 (1980–1990) Part 1, edited by the South African Democracy Education Trust (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2010), 555–610; J. Seekings, The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983–1991 (Cape Town: David Philip, 2000), Chapter 6; N. Vally, ‘The “Model Township” of Sharpeville: The Absence of Political Action and Organisation, 1960–1984’ (Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2011). 2. G. Rudé, The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848 (London: Serif, 1995). 3. Ibid., 11.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42968244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thula Simpson, Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala, N. Shiweda, Marion Wallace, Dag Henrichsen, G. Miescher, L. Rizzo
{"title":"Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester","authors":"Thula Simpson, Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala, N. Shiweda, Marion Wallace, Dag Henrichsen, G. Miescher, L. Rizzo","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.2030509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.2030509","url":null,"abstract":"Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia Support Committee. In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. on the history of land dispossession and labour recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism. He subsequently became an academic at the University of Namibia in the 1990s, and thereafter director of the Museums Association of Namibia. In these capacities he supervised a number of students who subsequently occupied influential positions in the educational and heritage sectors; and he was also involved in the establishment of a number of new museums and archives. To commemorate his life, we convened a roundtable of his peers to reflect on his legacy as an academic and an activist in these various spheres.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48159387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa","authors":"Noor Nieftagodien","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.2000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.2000021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44397402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy","authors":"N. Ulrich","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1960415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1960415","url":null,"abstract":"strating how he was also a man of the people. His desire to share his experiences and provide a good role model to younger men suffuses the text. Jeptha tells a story of pugilistic triumph, of injury, of humility, and of friendship. He responds to the loss of sight in 1907 by turning ‘to text as the form with a reach beyond his fists’ (63–64). He shows that a boxer can be a writer and a philosopher and challenges simplistic ideas that reduce the boxer to the enacter of violent masculinity. Jeptha embraced endurance as a ‘modality of the self’ and this enabled him to survive the ‘apartheid logic of engendering self-hatred’ (20). Campbell has written a complex and fascinating book. It is not an easy read because his carefully developed argument engages, at least for this reviewer, a wide range of unfamiliar traditions, abstractions, and semiotic interrogations. His willingness to make a bold argument and revisit a rare historical text, however, will interest historians and scholars of the subaltern, leisure, and sport studies.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49549671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Write as a Boxer. Disability and Resignification in the Text. A South African Boxer in Britain","authors":"R. Morrell","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1960413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1960413","url":null,"abstract":"A century after Andrew Daries Jeptha’s death, Kurt Campbell has brought the South African boxer back to life. Campbell achieves this through a text he found written by Jeptha in 1917 titled A South...","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}