In search of safety: Police transformation and public responses in South Africa

Daedalus

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 259-275

  Gastrow, Peter ^a   Shaw, Mark ^b  

^a Cape Town Office   (South Africa)

^b South African Institute of International Affairs   (South Africa)

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EID: 27844602013     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
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References (19)

1. Statement at the opening of the debate in the National Assembly on "Reconciliation and Nation Building," Cape Town, 29 May 1998, 〈http:// www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mbeki/1998/sp980529.html〉: "One of these nations is white, relatively prosperous, regardless of gender or geographic dispersal. It has ready access to a developed economic, physical, educational, communication and other infrastructure. The second and larger nation of South Africa is black and poor, with the worst affected being women in the rural areas, the black rural population in general and the disabled. This nation lives under conditions of a grossly underdeveloped economic, physical, educational, communication and other infrastructure. We therefore make bold to say that South Africa is a country of two nations."
2. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, Afrikaner Afrikaan (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1999), 95.
3. Martin Schonteich, Justice Versus Retribution: Attitudes to Punishment in the Eastern Cape, ISS Monograph Series, no. 45 (Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, February 2000), 3.
4. In Service of Safety: White Paper on Safety and Security, Pretoria, September 1998, 4.
5. In Service of Safety: White Paper on Safety and Security Ibid., 5.
6. Martin Schonteich, Assessing the Crime Fighters: The Ability of the Criminal Justice System to Solve and Prosecute Crime, ISS Paper 40, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, September 1999, 10.
7. In Service of Safety: White Paper on Safety and Security, 5.
8. Antoinette Louw and Mark Shaw, Stolen Opportunities: The Impact of Crime on South Africa's Poor, Monograph Series, no. 14 (Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, July 1997).
9. Statistics South Africa, Victims of Crime Survey, 1998, Statistical Release P0342 (Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 1999), 105.
10. See, for example, Rod Alence, "The Democratic Transition and Crime in South Africa: The Record of the 1990s," Nedcor ISS Crime Index 3 (2) (March-April 1999).
11. Daniel Nina, "Dirty Harry is Back: Vigilantism in South Africa - The (re) Emergence of 'Good' and 'Bad' Community," African Security Review 9 (1) (2000): 20.
12. South African Law Commission, Community Dispute Resolution Structures, Discussion Paper 87, Project 94, Pretoria, 1999, 3-5.
13. Jenny Irish, Policing for Profit: The Future of South Africa's Private Security Industry, ISS Monograph Series, no. 39 (Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, August 1999), 1.
14. Schonteich, Assessing the Crime Fighters, 42.
15. The June 1999 general election results showed that the negative views on crime fighting were not held with such intensity that support for the ANC was withheld. It received 74 percent of the vote in that province.
16. South African Institute of Race Relations, South African Survey, 1999-2000 (Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 2000), 79.
17. Figures obtained from month-to-month comparison supplied by the Crime Information Management Centre, South African Police Service, Pretoria. It should be noted, however, that overall statistical increases and decreases in crime levels generally have little impact on the political and public perception of the problem - it is as likely that an accumulation of high-profile criminal events such as the bombs in the Western Cape, the hijacking of prominent individuals, and a spate of cash-in-transit heists in the country shaped these perceptions as much as any sober examination of the available crime statistics.
18. Human Sciences Research Council Quarterly Survey, 1999-2000 (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, March 2000).
19. Amnesty International Annual Report 1999, 304-307, 〈http://www. amnestyusa.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/afr53.htm〉.