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Journal of Southern African Studies Contents and Authors Index, Volume 30, 2004 EDITORS: DEBORAH GAITSKELL, LYN SCHU- Neil Parsons, University of Botswana MAKER and DAVID SIMON Bizeck Phiri, University of Zambia Brian Raftopoulos, University of Zimbabwe Editorial Assistant: Josie Stadler Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape Robert Ross, University of Leiden Editorial Board Owen Sichone, University of Cape Town Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford Motlatsi Thabane, National University of Lesotho Fareda Banda, School of Oriental and African Studies, Balefi Tsie, University of Botswana London Ken Wilson, The Christensen Fund, Palo Alto, California Jo Beall, London School of Economics William Beinart, University of Oxford The Journal of Southern African Studies is an inter- Elleke Boehmer, Royal Holloway, London national publication for work of high academic quality on Christopher Cramer, School of Oriental and African issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Studies Africa. It aims at generating fresh scholarly enquiry and Wayne Dooling, School of Oriental and African Studies rigorous exposition in the many different disciplines of Sara Rich Dorman, University of Edinburgh the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to encourage Saul Dubow, University of Sussex inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspec- Matthew Engelke, London School of Economics tives and research that reflects new theoretical or method- Harri Englund, University of Cambridge ological approaches. Ben Fine, School of Oriental and African Studies The region covered embraces South Africa, Namibia, Deborah Gaitskell (Editor), University of London Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Deborah James, London School of Economics Malawi, Angola and Mozambique: and, occasionally, Diana Jeater (Reviews Editor), University of the West of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagas- England car and Mauritius. Jeremy Krikler, University of Essex Paul la Hausse (Reviews Editor), University of Cam- Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for bridge submission, should be sent to Dr Colin Stoneman, Jour- Alan Lester, University of Sussex nal of Southern African Studies, Old School, Swine, Hull, Shula Marks, School of Oriental and African Studies, HU1 4JE, UK. Tel: 44 (0)1482 811227: Fax: 44 (0)1482 London 815857. JoAnn McGregor, University of Reading E-mail: [email protected] Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Birkbeck College, London Colin Murray (Chair), University of Manchester Books for review should be sent c/o Dr Paul la Hausse Debby Potts, King’s College, London de la Louviére, Reviews Editor, Journal of Southern Terry Ranger, University of Oxford African Studies, Centre of African Studies, University of Hilary Sapire, Birkbeck College, London Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ, Lyn Schumaker (Editor), University of Manchester UK. 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John McCracken, University of Stirling Alois Mlambo, University of Zimbabwe Joel das Neves Tembe, Arquivo Historico de Mocam- bique Josephine Nhongo-Simbanegavi, University of Zimbabwe Achim von Oppen, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin © 2004 Journal of Southern African Studies VOLUME 30 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2004 SPECIAL ISSUE: RACE AND CLASS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES Editors: Peter Alexander, Rick Halpern, Jeremy Krikler and Shula Marks Introduction: Comparing Race and Labour in South Africa and the United States Peter Alexander and Rick Halpern Solving the ‘Labour Problem’: Race, Work and the State in the Sugar Industries of Louisiana and Natal, 1870-1910 Rick Halpern Mastering the Sharecroppers: Land, Labour and the Search for Independence in the US South and South Africa Ian Ochiltree Convict Labour, Industrialists and the State in the US South and South Africa, 1870-1930 William H. Worger ‘The Great Migration’ and ‘The Greatest Trek’: Some Reflections Philip Bonner Race, Class Loyalty and the Structure of Capitalism: Coal Miners in Alabama and the Transvaal, 1918-1922 Peter Alexander ‘The Hope for White and Black’? Race, Labour and the State in South Africa and the United States, 1924-1956 Alex Lichtenstein Communists and Black Freedom Movements in South Africa and the US: 1919-1950 Edward Johanningsmeier Book Reviews VOLUME 30 NUMBER 2 JUNE 2004 Editorial Lyn Schumaker STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE Nationalist Historiography, Patriotic History and the History of the Nation: the Struggle over the Past in Zimbabwe Terence Ranger Orality in the Black Zimbabwean Novel in English Maurice Taonezvi Vambe A Coming of Age? Re-conceptualising Gender and Development in Urban Botswana Kavita Datta Redressing School Inequalities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa Anthony Lemon Reflections on Thabo Mbeki’s African Renaissance Elias K. Bongmba Territorial Manipulation in Apartheid South Africa: Resettlement, Tribal Politics and the Making of the Northern Ciskei, 1975-1990 Luvuyo Wotshela The Man Who Would Be /nkosi: Civilising Missions in Shepstone’s Early Career Thomas McClendon PERSPECTIVES ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR: COMMEMORATION AND FICTION Reframing Remembrance: the Politics of the Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 Albert Grundlingh A Century Later: New Fictional Representations of the Boer War David Medalie Book Reviews VOLUME 30 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2004 Editorial David Simon Nationalism, Feminism and Autonomy: the ANC in Exile and the Question of Women Shireen Hassim Unveiling South Africa’s Nuclear Past Verne Harris, Sello Hatang and Peter Liberman Selling Selves: East Rand Retail Sector Workers Fragmented and Reconfigured Bridget Kenny AFRICAN WOMEN COMMITTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE African Women, Violent Crime and the Criminal Law in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1952 Tapiwa B. Zimudzi Deaths in the Family: Domestic Violence, Witchcraft Accusations and Political Militancy in Transkei, South Africa, 1904-1965 Sean Redding LIBERATION POLITICS AND POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN NAMIBIA Student Political Consciousness: Lessons from a Namibian Mission School Christian A. Williams Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo? Jan-Bart Gewald ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSPORT AND LAND Zimbabwe’s Changing Freight Transport and Logistical System: Structural Adjustment and Political Change Poul Ove Pedersen Renewed Land Debate and the ‘Cargo Cult’ in Mozambique Joseph Hanlon COPING WITH HIV/AIDS: STRATEGIES, STRUGGLES AND MIGRATION Corporate South Africa’s Response to HIV/AIDS: Why so Slow? David Dickinson ‘Long Live Zackie, Long Live’: AIDS Activism, Science and Citizenship after Apartheid Steven Robins Children’s Migration as a Household/Family Strategy: Coping with AIDS in Lesotho and Malawi Nicola Ansell and Lorraine van Blerk Review Articles The UDF Period and its Meaning for Contemporary South Africa Greg Houston, The National Liberation Struggle in South Africa: a Case Study of the United Democratic Front, 1983—1987. Jeremy Seekings, The UDF: a History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa 1983-1991. Ineke van Kessel, ‘Beyond Our Wildest Dreams’: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa (Reviewed by RAYMOND SUTTNER) Sjambok or Cane? Reading the Blue Book Jeremy Silvester and Jan-Bart Gewald (eds), Words Cannot Be Found. German Colonial Rule in Namibia: An Annotated Reprint of the 1918 Blue Book (Reviewed by REINHART KOSSLER) Book Reviews VOLUME 30 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2004 SPECIAL ISSUE: WRITING IN TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA: FICTION, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY Editors: Elleke Boehmer and Deborah Gaitskell Editorial Elleke Boehmer and Deborah Gaitskell WRITING (IN) THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA City Forms and Writing the ‘Now’ in South Africa Sarah Nuttall Ndebele, Fanon, Agency and Irony Johan Geertsema A Whiter Shade of Pale: White Femininity as Guilty Masquerade in ‘New’ (White) South African Women’s Writing Georgina Horrell ‘Minor Disorders’: Ivan Vladislavié and the Devolution of South African English Stefan Helgesson REPOSITIONINGS, PAST AND PRESENT Same War, Different Story: A Century’s Writing on the Boer-Hananwa War of 1894 Lizé Kriel Adapting the National Imaginary: Shifting Identities in Three Post - 1994 South African Novels Annie Gagiano BIOGRAPHICAL REAPPRAISALS/REAPPRAISING BIOGRAPHY Carl Meinhof and the German Influence on Nicholas van Warmelo’s Ethnological and Linguistic Writing, 1927-1935 Sara Pugach The Construction of Eugéne Marais as an Afrikaner Hero Sandra Swart In Pursuit of the Subject: Towards a Biography of Arthur Nortje Dirk Klopper Review Article Apartheid and the Jewish Question Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn (eds), Memories, Realities and Dreams Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience. Gideon Shimoni, Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa (Reviewed by SHULA MARKS) Book Reviews