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Southern African Historical Society

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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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My review of 'Labour Struggles in Southern Africa: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union' is now available in Canadian Journal of African Studies: tandfonline.com/eprint/AFA3THD


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We are pleased to announce that Julie Parle’s article “Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s – 1976” has won the 2022 prize for the best article published per year in the South African Historical Journal. Read

We are pleased to announce that Julie Parle’s article “Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s – 1976” has won the 2022 prize for the best article published per year in the South African Historical Journal.  Read
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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

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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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

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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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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Here is another fascinating podcast of the South African Historical Journal ! laurap88.podbean.com/e/julie-parle-
 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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Call for Proposals! The Call for Applications to our 2025 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) fellowship competitions has opened! Applications are due by January 31, 2025, 11:59 PM EST. Learn more: bit.ly/3TZdldY

Call for Proposals! The Call for Applications to our 2025 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) fellowship competitions has opened! Applications are due by January 31, 2025, 11:59 PM EST. Learn more: bit.ly/3TZdldY
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New article by our PhD student Brian Maragedze and senior lecturer DrThembani Dube: 'A history of Congolese and Rwandese immigrants in Harare’s urban transport sector 1993-2022' in Southern Journal for Contemporary History.

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Delighted to have an archival report out in the new issue of UFS's Southern Journal for Contemporary History drawing on research Herskovits Library Northwestern Libraries. Read to learn about Herbert Chitepo's connections to the Capricorn Africa Society & more: doi.org/10.38140/sjch.


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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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My review of the edited book 'History Beyond Apartheid' is now available in The Journal of African History. The book is a kind of snapshot and guide to how historical scholarship on South Affrica has expanded and fragmented over the last 30 years: cambridge.org/core/journals/


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The Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship supports doctoral students carrying out fieldwork, collecting and analyzing data, and working on their literature review and dissertation writing. Learn more: ssrc.secure-platform.com/a/organization


The Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship supports doctoral students carrying out fieldwork, collecting and analyzing data, and working on their literature review and dissertation writing. 

Learn more: ssrc.secure-platform.com/a/organization

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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 South African Historical Journal. doi.org/10.1080/025824


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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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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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Now online is the latest issue of the South African Historical Journal. tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/cur
 The issue includes a fascinating set of articles such as: · Tinashe's analysis of South Africa’s attempts to make Zimbabwe one of its provinces, and Abraham Mlombo’s examination

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In this new and open access article, Ian van der Waag 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. doi.org/10.1080/025824


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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 ;