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An active network for communication among professional historians and those in cognate disciplines working on South Africa or southern Africa. Home to @sahisjor
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Joined June 2013
In this new and open access article, Ian Macqueen and Adam Kochajkiewic use the stories of Patrick Mabinda and Beverley Joan Marcus to explore the experiences of South Africans in exile in the Polish People’s Republic.
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This article explores the documenting of activists' experiences in the Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa (Polish People’s Republic, PRL) in the 1980s. It discusses the exile of Patrick Mabinda from Sout...
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In this open access article, Handri Walters uncovers the significant connections between Afrikaner nationalism, the National Party, and the emergence of Afrikaans-medium in the faculty of medicine at Stellenbosch University during the 1940s and 1950s.
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In 1956 Stellenbosch University enrolled its first cohort of students for a degree in medicine. It marked a momentous occasion for the university after 10 years of fundraising and negotiations with...
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The latest issue of the South African Historical Journal is now online. This issue includes a fascinating set of articles that examine: . > the response of farmers in the Cape respond to the ravages of the phylloxera outbreak in 1886 by Lloyd Melusi Maphosa ;.
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In this new and open access article, @ianvanderwaag examines the experiences of South African soldiers interned in Italy and Germany during the Second World War, focussing on their transition from being combatants on the battlefield to prisoners of war.
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More prisoners of war were captured during the Second World War than in any other war. Of the 70 million men and women that served in the land, sea, and air forces of the belligerent states, some 1...
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Now online is the latest issue of the South African Historical Journal. The issue includes a fascinating set of articles such as:. · @nyamundat's analysis of South Africa’s attempts to make Zimbabwe one of its provinces, and Abraham Mlombo’s examination.
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Volume 76, Issue 3 of South African Historical Journal
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Membership Renewal and Subscription . Dear Members and Prospective Members of the Southern African Historical Society (SAHS),. Your 2025-2026 membership is now due. Membership for the SAHS runs over two years. The membership fee for 2025 – 2026 is R550 for academic staff and.
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The latest issue of the South African Historical Journal is finally online. Available on the link below, the issue features a wide range of articles that reflect the high-quality scholarship on South Africa and the southern African region that historians continue to generate.
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This latest article by Mykhailo Volokhai examines the genesis and evolution of the relationship between Portugal and South Africa and how it significantly shaped the regional politics of 20th century southern Africa. It is now free to read in @sahisjor.
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The relationship between Portugal and South Africa significantly shaped the regional politics of twentieth-century southern Africa. Notably, Exercise Alcora, the military alliance between Rhodesia,...
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RT @APN_SSRC: The Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship supports doctoral students carrying out fieldwork, collecting and anal….
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RT @mininghistory: My review of the edited book 'History Beyond Apartheid' is now available in @JAH_editors. The book is a kind of snapshot….
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Assembling a Historiography of South Africa - History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography Thula Simpson, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. 263. £90,...
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New Opportunity: African Studies Visiting Fellowship. The Bodleian is currently advertising its visiting fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year including the African Studies. The African Studies Fellowship is open to a scholar currently affiliated with a university in.
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RT @AfricaInDC: Delighted to have an archival report out in the new issue of @UFSweb's Southern Journal for Contemporary History drawing on….
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RT @Stell_History: New article by our PhD student Brian Maragedze and senior lecturer DrThembani Dube: 'A history of Congolese and Rwandese….
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RT @APN_SSRC: Call for Proposals! The Call for Applications to our 2025 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Scie….
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Here is another fascinating podcast of the South African Historical Journal !. In this latest offering, Erin Hazan interviews Julie Parle, author of the award-winning article, ‘The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy.
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New funding opportunity open to all historians . The editors of the South African Historical Journal are delighted to announce that the journal will be able to fund one in-person workshop (to be held in Southern Africa) in 2025 to the value of ZAR40,000 per application. This is.
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The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria invites you to a hybrid seminar on . “Reflections on Teaching South African History”. This webinar seeks to build on discussions initiated by the South African Historical Journal’s July 2023 webinar
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We are delighted to announce that Hilary Lynd’s article “The Peace Deal: The Formation of the Ingonyama Trust and the IFP Decision to Join South Africa’s 1994 Elections” has won the 2021 Prize for the best article published per year in the South African Historical Journal. Read
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