Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary
epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts …

In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850-1913, Lindsay
Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation …

Does wealth persist over time, despite the disruptions of historical shocks like colonisation?
This paper shows that South Africa experienced a reversal of fortunes after the arrival of …

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a
Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people …

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling
sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth …

Archaeologies of colonialism have have called for exploring the culturally dynamic
entanglements of people and objects while acknowledging the violence that accompanied …

In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-
Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the …

TWO NOTEWORTHY HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES have proceeded in parallel fashion
since the early 1980s without the protagonists in either debate being aware of the other. One …

Ha Makoanyane in Lesotho was excavated in 2010 as part of the Metolong Cultural
Resource Management (MCRM) Project ahead of the construction of the Metolong Dam …

The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South
African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues …