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SAHS Membership Renewal for 2025 – 2026
Dear SAHS Members and Prospective Members. 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 those drawing salaries, R30 for postgraduate students. To register as members for the current cycle, please sign up online via the website (use the “Sign Up for Membership” tab. You will find payment details here.
Note that we no longer use the old forms (sent via email) for signing up. Even if you have signed up previously, you need to sign up again, via the website. Unfortunately, if you do not sign up via the website, you will not be added to the membership list for Taylor and Francis, and so will no longer receive members-only copies (virtual and hardcopy) of our beloved journal, the South African Historical Journal.
For any enquiries about membership costs or invoices, including costs for Southern African members, please email Prof. Natasha Erlank at: nerlank@uj.ac.za.
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…
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…
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.…
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.