《南部非洲发展》是一本国际认可的多学科期刊，专注于南部非洲地区的发展政策和实践。成立于1984年的数字版权局已成为一个重要的论坛，在社会科学领域提供基于地区的奖学金，并鼓励那些寻求政策解决方案的地方和区域社会经济发展挑战的文章。它仍然是南部非洲多学科（经济学、社会学、农业经济学、发展研究、政治科学等）的首选期刊，并发表了有关该地区关键发展问题的文章。其中包括贫困、失业、旅游、农业、商业发展、基础设施建设和其他相关发展主题。该杂志鼓励定量和定性的政策相关研究文章，简短的研究笔记，书评和辩论。由于决策者广泛阅读DSA，我们鼓励作者根据本文所传达的证据提出政策建议。数字版权局还欢迎特刊的客座编辑提出建议，并鼓励第一次作者为这些主题版共同撰写文章。
Development Southern Africa (DSA) is an internationally accredited, multi-disciplinary journal focussing on development policy and practice in the southern Africa region.Founded in 1984, DSA has become an important forum for presenting area-based scholarship in the social sciences and encouraging articles that seek policy solutions to local and regional socio-economic development challenges. It remains the southern Africa journal of choice for several disciplines (economics, sociology, agricultural economics, development studies, political science, amongst others), and it publishes articles in respect of the key development issues in the region. These include poverty, unemployment, tourism, agriculture, business development, infrastructure development and other related development themes.The journal encourages quantitative and qualitative policy relevant research articles, shorter research notes, book reviews and debates. As DSA is widely read by policy makers, we encourage authors to make policy suggestions based on the evidence conveyed in the article. DSA also welcomes proposals from guest editors for special issues, and encourages first time authors to co-author articles for such theme editions.