The 'Nevergiveups' of Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS: scholar-journalism-activism as social documentary

Eric Miller,Jo-Anne Smetherham,Jennifer Fish

Abstract

Portraits, publics and politics: Gisele Wulfsohn's photographs of HIV/AIDS, 1987-2007

Annabelle Wienand

Introduction to special issue: Documentary photography in South Africa

Diana Wylie

Picturing the beloved country: Margaret Bourke-White, Life Magazine, and South Africa, 1949-1950

John Edwin Mason

Arteries of empire: on the geographical imagination of South Africa's railway war, 1914/1915

Giorgio Miescher

Imagining National Unity: South African propaganda efforts during the Second World War

Suryakanthie Chetty

Reflections on the making of the AmaBandla Ama-Afrika Exhibition (2011-2012): Martin West's Soweto photographs

Paul Weinberg

Visualizing The Realm of a Rain-Queen: The production and circulation of Eileen and Jack Krige's Lobedu fieldwork photographs from the 1930s

Patricia Davison,George Mahashe

Lounge photography and the politics of township interiors: the representation of the black South African home in the Ngilima photographic collection, East Rand, 1950s

Sophie Feyder

Native Work: an artwork by Andrew Putter consisting of 38 portrait photographs (with photography by Hylton Boucher, Kyle Weeks and Andrew Putter)

Andrew Putter

Wounding apertures: violence, affect and photography during and after apartheid

Kylie Thomas

Contributors

Imagining nation, state, and order in the mid-twentieth century

Ryan M Irwin

Living in exile: Daily life and international relations at SWAPO's Kongwa Camp

Christian A Williams

A native of nowhere: The life of South African journalist Nat Nakasa, 1937-1965

Ryan Lenora Brown

Rationalizing Gukurahundi: Cold War and South African Foreign Relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983

Timothy Scarnecchia

Reading and representing African refugees in New York

Sean Field

Road to Ghana: Nkrumah, Southern Africa and the eclipse of a decolonizing Africa

Jeffrey S Ahlman

Decolonization of a special type: rethinking Cold War History in Southern Africa

Christopher J Lee

Abstract

The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: A little-known Cold War thread

Christopher Saunders

Crafting a story about an African interpreter on colonial South Africa's eastern frontier: Roger Levine's narrative of the life of Jan Tzatzoe

Andrew Bank

Does all that is solid melt into air?questioning 'neo-liberal' occult economies in Mozambique

Jason Sumich

Laughing with Sam Sly: the cultural politics of satire and colonial british identity in the Cape Colony, c. 1840-1850

Christopher Holdridge

The owl of minerva and the ironic fate of the progressive praxis of radical historiography in post-apartheid South Africa

André du Toit

Contesting names and statues: battles over the Louis Trichardt/Makhado 'city-text' in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Mahunele Thotse

'Remember Cassinga?' an exhibition of photographs and histories

Christian A. Williams

Reading visual representations of 'Ndabeni' in the public realms

Sipokazi Sambumbu

National history in Southern Africa: reflections on the 'Remember Cassinga?' exhibition

Christian A. Williams

'Ontological gap' or political calculation? A critique of the tradition-modernity dichotomy in Mordechai Tamarkin's Volk and Flock

Natascha Visser

Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin's photographs for the Bantu tribes of South Africa (1928-1954): the construction of an ambiguous idyll

Michael Godby

'Guns don't colonise people ...': the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonial Africa

Rory Pilossof

Economic fables

Shane Moran

A prose of ambivalence: liberation struggle discourse on necklacing

Riedwaan Moosage

An ageing anachronism: D.F. Malan as prime minister, 1948-1954

Lindie Koorts

'... speak that I may see thee': bushmen, bleek, language and race in South Africa

Tony Voss

Reviews

Family law and 'the great moral public interests' in Victorian Cape Town, c.1850-1902

Vertrees C. Malherbe

'Re la Tsoantso' ('Father of the pictures'): Joseph Denfield's photography, 1944-1965

Phindezwa Mnyaka

A flying Springbok of wartime British skies: A.G. 'Sailor' Malan

Bill Nasson

British air shows in South Africa, 1932/33: 'airmindedness', ambition and anxiety

Gordon Pirie

Reviews

An early modern entrepreneur: hendrik oostwald eksteen and the creation of wealth in dutch colonial cape town, 1702-1741

Gerald Groenewald

Photographic portraiture, neighbourhood activism and apartheid's industrial legacy: reflections on the Breathing Spaces exhibition

Marijke du Toit,Jenny Gordon

Not quite fair play, old chap: the complexion of cricket and sport in South Africa

Bill Nasson

Contestations over knowledge production or ideological bullying?: a response to Legassick on the workers' movement

Jabulani Sithole

Utopia Live: singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation

Paolo Israel

Land redistribution politics in the Eastern Cape midlands: the case of the Lukhanji municipality, 1995-2006

Luvuyo Wotshela

Nostalgia and the native commissioners: a hundred years in the old Transkei

Jeff Peires