Black and Blue

Policing in South Africa

By: John D. Brewer

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Hardcover | 1 June 1994

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The South African Police Force is among the world's most controversial police forces, plagued by allegations of misconduct and archaic methods. John Brewer places these problems in their historical context through this detailed study of the origins and development of policing in South Africa. Brewer sees a major problem in the lack of modernization: long after similar forces around the world had been modernized, South African Police continued to discharge a colonial role, using policing methods and styles suitable for the nineteenth century. Brewer eloquently links this lack of modernization and development to the South African state's need for a police force to uphold and implement its policies of internal colonialism. He argues further that this is the source of the close relationship between the police and state in South Africa. Now that the South African government has been transformed, the police force must adapt. Brewer concludes with a discussion of reform and warns that
it will be severely constrained if it fails to transcend its colonial origins.

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From reviews of Inside the RUC: an excellent book which gives genuine sociological insights into policing a divided society' Irish Journal of Sociology `an outstandingly splendid monograph on the daily reality of policing' Reviewing Sociology

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List of Tables	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The Colonial Agenda: 1910-1913	p. 14
Policemen Versus Pukkah Soldiers: 1914-1926	p. 56
Internal and External War: 1927-1945	p. 105
The Transition to Apartheid: 1946-1959	p. 168
The Second Phase of Apartheid: 1960-1975	p. 223
Policing Reform and Reforming the Police: 1976-1992	p. 268
Conclusion	p. 332
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 373
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