Post Apartheid Security Policies in South Africa

This book sets out to explore an alternative, nodal§manner of comprehending and providing security§governance in South Africa. To provide a sound§argument for this alternative route of nodal§governance it approaches the subject matter by§analysing the trajectory of the South African§policing policies (1990-2006), the social and§democratic consequences thereof, and by conducting§two case studies which serve the purpose of depicting§how security is governed in an urban and a rural§community. The book argues that security governance§cannot and should not be conceived through a§dichotomised state-society relationship. It argues§that governmental agencies in rural areas employ§control measures in order to improve service§delivery, whereas the sole focus upon efficiency§circumscribes the poor and marginalised potential of§deepening democracy concomitantly to establish more§equitable security governance. It also provides a§proposal to deepen nodal governance theory with double agents as change agents . This book will be§of interest for students and scholars of political§science, for those whom have their interest in§Africa, in safety and security, and the theory of§nodal governance.