VOLUME 25 NUMBER | MARCH 1999 Reasonable Men and Provocative Women: an Analysis of Gendered Domestic Homicide in Zambia Darlene Rude War and Remembrance: the Power of Oral Poetry and the Politics of Hananwa Identity Annekie Joubert and J. A. van Schalkwyk 29 The Rhodesia Railways African Strike of 1945, Part II: Cause, Consequence, Significance Kenneth P. Vickery 49 Revisiting the Origins of the Industrial Colour Bar in the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry, 1891-1899 Elaine N. Katz 73 Whiteness and Power in the South African Civil Service: Paradoxes of the Apartheid State Deborah Posel 99 The Institutionalization of Contract Labour in Namibia Allan D. Cooper 121 Review Section Review Articles New Perspectives on Citizenship in Contemporary Africa Bettina von Lieres 139 The State and Politics in Africa Tom Young 149 Book Reviews Brian Willan (ed), Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings (Reviewed by JOHN COMAROFF) 155 Robert R. Edgar and Lyuanda ka Msumza (eds), Freedom in our Lifetime: the Collected Writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (Reviewed by NANCY CLARK) 156 Steve Jacobs, The Enemy Within and Ivan Vladislavic, Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (Reviewed by BRENDON NICHOLLS) 158 Johan van Wyk, Constructs of Identity and Difference in South African Literature (Reviewed by LESLIE WITz) 160 Karin Barber (ed), Readings in African Popular Culture (Reviewed by PREBEN KAARSHOLM) 161 VOLUME 25 NUMBER | MARCH 1999 Reasonable Men and Provocative Women: an Analysis of Gendered Domestic Homicide in Zambia Darlene Rude War and Remembrance: the Power of Oral Poetry and the Politics of Hananwa Identity Annekie Joubert and J. A. van Schalkwyk 29 The Rhodesia Railways African Strike of 1945, Part II: Cause, Consequence, Significance Kenneth P. Vickery 49 Revisiting the Origins of the Industrial Colour Bar in the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry, 1891-1899 Elaine N. Katz 73 Whiteness and Power in the South African Civil Service: Paradoxes of the Apartheid State Deborah Posel 99 The Institutionalization of Contract Labour in Namibia Allan D. Cooper 121 Review Section Review Articles New Perspectives on Citizenship in Contemporary Africa Bettina von Lieres 139 The State and Politics in Africa Tom Young 149 Book Reviews Brian Willan (ed), Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings (Reviewed by JOHN COMAROFF) 155 Robert R. Edgar and Lyuanda ka Msumza (eds), Freedom in our Lifetime: the Collected Writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (Reviewed by NANCY CLARK) 156 Steve Jacobs, The Enemy Within and Ivan Vladislavic, Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (Reviewed by BRENDON NICHOLLS) 158 Johan van Wyk, Constructs of Identity and Difference in South African Literature (Reviewed by LESLIE WITz) 160 Karin Barber (ed), Readings in African Popular Culture (Reviewed by PREBEN KAARSHOLM) 161 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 2 JUNE 1999 Land Reform, Growth and Equity: Emerging Evidence from Zimbabwe's Resettlement Programme Bill H. Kinsey Migrant Labour and the Peasantry in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1930-1965 Wazha G. Morapedi 197 Who Killed ‘Malagasy Cactus’? Science, Environment and Colonialism in Southern Madagascar (1924-1930) Karen Middleton 215 The Integrated Community Apartheid Could Not Destroy: the Warwick Avenue Triangle in Durban Brij Maharaj 249 Reprisals of Modernity in Black South African ‘Mission’ Writing David Attwell Constructions of Apartheid in the International Reception of the Novels of J. M. Coetzee Clive Barnett 287 Review Section Review Article ‘Keeping History Open’: Studies in South African Literary History David Medalie Wwo OW w Book Reviews Alan Gregory Cobley, The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa (Reviewed by KEITH SHEAR) Martina Egli and Denise Krayer, ‘Mothers and Daughters’: the Training of African Nurses by Missionary Nurses of the Swiss Mission in South Africa (Reviewed by SHULA MARKS) Carolyn Hamilton, Terrific Majesty. The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention (Reviewed by TERENCE RANGER) Karel Schoeman, The Face of the Country: a South African Family Album 1860-1914 (Reviewed by SAUL DuBow) Peter Kinlund, Does Land Degradation Matter? Perspectives on Environmental Change in North-Eastern Botswana (Reviewed by WAZHA G. MoraAPEDI) 316 William Gutteridge and J. E. Spence (eds), Violence in Southern Africa (Reviewed by RUPERT TAYLOR) 318 Steven M. Friedson, Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Reviewed by BRIAN Morris) 320 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 1999 Missions, Respectability and Civil Rights: the Cape Colony, 1828-1854 Robert Ross 333 Environment, Production and Social Difference in the Kalahari Thornveld c 1750-1830 Nancy J. Jacobs 347 The Millenium Comes to Mapumulo: Popular Christianity in Rural Natal, 1866-1906 Michael Mahoney 375 Men with Cookers: Transformations in Migrant Culture, Domesticity and Identity in Duncan Village, East London Leslie Bank 393 Violence, Exile and Ethnicity: Nyemba Refugees in Kaisosi and Kehemu (Rundu, Namibia) Inge Brinkman 417 Outcomes of Social and Environmental Change in the Kalahari of Botswana: the Role of Migration Deborah Sporton, David $.G. Thomas and Jean Morrison 44] The Politics of Mythology: the Genealogy of the Philip Myth Andrew Bank 461 The Politics of Territory and Place in Post-apartheid South Africa: the Disputed Area of Bushbuckridge Maano F. Ramutsindela and David Simon 479 Review Section Review Article Truth and Reconciliation: the Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History Aletta J. Norval 499 Book Reviews T.R.H. Davenport, The Birth of the New South Africa (Reviewed by Tom LoDGE) 321 Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace and Wolfram Hartmann, with Ben Fuller Jr (eds), Namibia under Colonial Rule: Mobility and Containment in Namibia 1915-46 (Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS) 521 George M. Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination: on the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (Reviewed by HUGH BROGAN) David Chidester, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Reviewed by JAMES CAMPBELL) Notes for Contributors VOLUME 25 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 1999 Refugees and Squatters: Immigration and the Politics of Territory on the Zimbabwe—Mozambique Border David McDermott Hughes 533 The Politics of Land Scarcity: Land Disputes in Save Communal Area, Zimbabwe Jens A. Andersson i)N nW w ‘To Come Together for Progress’: Modernization and Nation-building in South Africa’s Bantustan Periphery — the Case of Bophuthatswana Peris Sean Jones 579 ‘Problems of Europe’: N.P. van Wyk Louw, the Intellectual and Apartheid Mark Sanders 607 ‘The Context of the Awful Event’: Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun David Medalie African Soldiers and Imperial Authorities: Tensions and Unrest During the Service of High Commission Territories Soldiers in the British Army, 1941-46 Ashley Jackson Race Relations and Racism in a Racially Diverse Inner City Neighbourhood: a Case Study of Hillbrow, Johannesburg Alan Morris 667 Review Section Review Article The Fruits of The Baobab: Irene Staunton and the Zimbabwean Novel Terence Ranger 695 Book Reviews Kent Fedorowich, Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire Between the Wars (Reviewed by DONAL Lowry) 703 Steven C. Rubert, A Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945 (Reviewed by BLAIR RUTHERFORD) 704 Deborah Lavin, From Empire to International Commonwealth. A Biography of Lionel Curtis (Reviewed by KENT FEDOROWICH) 706 P. Mawhood (ed), Local Government in the Third World: the ne of Decentralization in Tropical Africa (Reviewed by RANDAL SMITH) Lars-Gunnar Andersson and Tore Janson, Languages in Botswana: Language Ecology in Southern Africa (Reviewed by Dorcas B. MOLEFE) Elna Schoeman and Stanley Schoeman (compilers), Namibia (Reviewed by DAG HENRICHSEN) Eddie Daniels, There and Back: Robben Island 1964-79 (Reviewed by NATASHA ERLANK Notes for Contributors Author Index ANDERSSON, JENS A., 553 MOoRAPEDI, WAZHA G., 197 ATTWELL, DAVID, 267 Morris, ALAN, 667 MorkrIsON, JEAN, 441 BANK, ANDREW, 461 BANK, LESLIE, 393 Norva., ALETTA J., 499 BARNETT, CLIVE, 287 BRINKMAN, INGE, 417 POSEL, DEBORAH, 99 COopeER, ALLAN D., 121 RAMUTSINDELA, MAANO F., 479 RANGER, TERENCE, 695 HUGHES, DAvID M., 533 Ross, ROBERT, 333 RUDE, DARLENE, 7 JACKSON, ASHLEY, 645 JAcoBs, NANCY J., 347 SANDERS, MARK, 607 JONES, PERIS S., 579 SIMON, DAviD, 479 JOUBERT, ANNEKIE, 29 SPORTON, DEBORAH, 441 KATZ, ELAINE N., 73 THOMAS, DAVID S.G., 441 KINSEY, BILL H., 173 VAN SCHALKWYK, J.A., 29 MAHARAJ, BRU, 249 VICKERY, KENNETH P., 49 MAHONEY, MICHAEL, 375 VON LIERES, BETTINA, 139 MEDALIE, DAviD, 303, 633 MIDDLETON, KAREN, 215 YOUNG, Tom, 149 Saea d