Post Apartheid Security Policies in South Africa

This book sets out to explore an alternative, nodalmanner of comprehending and providing securitygovernance in South Africa. To provide a soundargument for this alternative route of nodalgovernance it approaches the subject matter byanalysing the trajectory of the South Africanpolicing policies (1990-2006), the social anddemocratic consequences thereof, and by conductingtwo case studies which serve the purpose of depictinghow security is governed in an urban and a ruralcommunity. The book argues that security governancecannot and should not be conceived through adichotomised state-society relationship. It arguesthat governmental agencies in rural areas employcontrol measures in order to improve servicedelivery, whereas the sole focus upon efficiencycircumscribes the poor and marginalised potential ofdeepening democracy concomitantly to establish moreequitable security governance. It also provides aproposal to deepen nodal governance theory with double agents as change agents . This book will beof interest for students and scholars of politicalscience, for those whom have their interest inAfrica, in safety and security, and the theory ofnodal governance.... Mehr