| VOLUME 58 Number 2 December 1999 Contents Introduction Connections Isabel Hofmeyr129 Articles Forgotten Connections, Unconsidered Parallels: A New Agenda for Comparative Research in Southern Africa and the Caribbean Alan G. Cobley133 Without the West: 1990s Southern African and Indian Woman Writers—A Conversation? Elleke Boehmer 157 Just Cricket: Black Struggles for Racial Justice and Equality Hilary Beckles171 Travelling Theatre "Not Even History": A Tale of Two Islands Robert Leyshon191 Lysistrata in Nairobi: Performing the Power of Womanhood in the Post-colony George Odera Outa199 Conference Reports The TRC: Commissioning the Past Katie Mooney, Noor Nieftagodien and Nicole Ulrich209 African Environments Past and Present Clive Glaser219 Contributors 225 Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 58227 VOLUME 58 Number 1 July 1999 Contents Articles The Burial of Canon J.A. Calata and the Revival of Mass-Based Opposition in Cradock, South Africa,1983 Michael Tetelman 5 "Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day". Rural Settler Childhood, 1850s-1880s Simon Dagut 33 From the Ninevites to the Hard Livings Gang: Township Gangsters and Urban Violence in Twentieth-century South Africa Gary Kynoch 55 Change and Continuity in South African Education: The Impact of Policy Linda Chisholm 87 Review Article The Role of the Heinemann African Writers Series in the Development and Promotion of African Literature Phaswane Mpe 105 Contributors 123 VOLUME 57 Number 2 December 1998 Contents Articles Fieldsights: The Anthropological Narration of Post-apartheid South Africa David B. Coplan 133 Negotiating Segregation: Pre-parliamentary Debate over the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 Susan Parnell 147 South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Public Ritual and Private Transition: The Truth Commission in Alexandra Township, South Africa 1996 Belinda Bozzoli 167 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the South African Judiciary, and Constitutionalism Jonathan Klaaren 197 Slouching towards Bethlehem: Ubu and the Truth Commission Lesley Marx 209 Review Articles The "Fierce Belonging" of Antjie Krog: Review of Country of my Skull by Antjie Krog, Random House, Johannesburg, 1998 Gerrit Olivier 221 Report of the International Symposium on Globalisation and Social Sciences in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, September 1998 Noor Nieftagodien 229 Book Reviews When the Sleeping Grass Awakens: Land and Power in Swaziland by Richard Levin (reviewed by Christopher Lowe) 239 The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics of the Occult in Postcolonial Africa by Peter Geschiere (reviewed by Isak Niehaus) 242 Obituary Leonard Walter Lanham 1921-1997 245 Contributors 247 Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 57 249 VOLUME 57 Number 1 July 1998 Contents Articles Words Across Worlds: Aspects of Language Contact and language Learning in the Eastern Cape, 1800-1850 Rajend Mesthrie 5 The Rise of the Bushman Penis: Germans, Genitalia and Genocide Robert Gordon 27 Fighting against the Tide: The White Right and Desegratation in Johannesburg's Inner City Alan Morris 55 Orality, Mediation and Subversion in Sol Plaatje's Mhudi Phaswane Mpe 79 Historical Classification of Khoe (Central Khoisan) Languages of Southern Africa Rainer Vossen 93 Notes, Debates and Correspondence Where was Raymond Dart Wrong? Goran Strkalj 107 Review Article American and South African Black History: Comparisons and Connections Christopher Saunders 113 Book Reviews Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State by Chris Alden (reviewed by Alan Emery) 119 The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise by Deborah Posel (reviewed by Tom Lodge) 121 NOTES, DEBATES AND CORRESPONDENCE Where was Raymond A. Dart wrong? 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