Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T14:18:31.879Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Security Strategies for a Future South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Simon Baynham
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The security services of every state are determined by two overlapping imperatives: a functional one flowing from actual or perceived threats to the country's safety, and a societal one stemming from the dominant ideologies, structures, and institutions prevailing within the state. Thus defence policy is not produced in a vacuum but in the context of a set of circumstances – historical and contemporary, external and domestic – which influence the policy-makers and their advisers. Decisions regarding the appropriate levels, patterns, and time-frame of security spending are not purely political, since they are also about the allocation of resources and about competing claims on public expenditure.

Type
Articles
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 401 - 430
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Huntington, Samuel P., The Soldier and the State (New York, 1957), p. 2.Google Scholar

2 Baynham, Simon, ‘Political Violence and the Security Response’, in Blumenfeld, Jesmond (ed.), South Africa in Crisis (London, 1987), p. 119.Google Scholar

3 Midlane, Matthew, ‘South Africa’, in Keegan, John (ed.), World Armies (London, 1979), p. 633.Google Scholar

4 Baynham, ‘Political Violence and the Security Response’, p. 119, and J. K. Cilliers, ‘The Role and Development of the SADF’, ‘Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa/A.N.C. Conference on ‘The Future of Security and Defence in South Africa’,Lusaka,23–27 May 1990.Google Scholar

5 See, for example, Financial Mail (Johannesburg), 10 07 1987.Google Scholar

6 Fourie, Deon, ‘African Military Potential – Into the Nineties’, in Venter, Al. J. (ed.), Challenge: Southern Africa within the African revolutionary context (Gibraltar, 1989), p. 440.Google Scholar

7 Baynham, ‘Political Violence and the Security Response’, pp. 115–16.

8 Financial Mail, 22 September 1989.

9 Financial Mail, 26 January 1990.

10 Baynham, ‘Political Violence and the Security Response’, pp. 122–3.

11 Prior, Andrew, ‘The SAP and the State: first line of defence’, in Indicator South Africa (Durban), 6, 4, 1989, pp. 53–7.Google Scholar

12 See Baynham, Simon, ‘Towards a National Defence Force in South Africa: problems and prospects’, I.D.A.S.A./A.N.C. Conference on ‘The Future of Security and Defence in South Africa’,Lusaka,23–27 May 1990Google Scholar. Also, Foot, M. R. D., Men in Uniform: military manpower in modern industrial societies (London, 1961).Google Scholar

13 Financial Mail, 15 December 1989.

14 Shandler, David, ‘National Service… or Service to the Nation?: the case for civilian national service’, Centre for Policy Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1990, Research Report No. 7.Google Scholar

15 Baynham, ‘Towards a National Defence Force in South Africa’, pp. 8–9.