Apartheid's Afterlives
Violence, Policing and the South African State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Kynoch (0000-0001-9562-4438, Dalhousie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-78 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2016.1087167 |
| OpenAlex | W2284834502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
White minority rule in South Africa was maintained through different forms of violence. Controlling and exploiting the black population required an extensive and interlinked bureaucratic, judicial and coercive apparatus that directly subjected black South Africans to state violence and marginalisation. Inevitably, this system provoked resistance. At the same time, the maintenance of white security and privilege fostered violence within many black communities, including crime, vigilantism, and communal conflict. Given the direct connection between racial politics and the violence that plagued South African society, many expected that violence would decline appreciably with the demise of apartheid in 1994. The reality, of course, has been more complex, and, despite significant change, violence continues to play a central role in many aspects of South African life, especially in the lives of the poor. This article examines ruptures and continuities in patterns and forms of violence from the apartheid past through the first 20 years of democracy. Situating post-apartheid violence in its historical context highlights one noteworthy departure, in that the politicised violence of recent years differs radically from the insurrectionary violence of the 1980s and the civil conflicts of the early 1990s. In terms of constants, the state’s failure to provide effective law enforcement in poorer, primarily black, areas and the corresponding tendency of private citizens to police their communities largely mirrors developments from the apartheid past
Criminology · Demise · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
The structure of South African police
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions
Three warnings and you’re out’
Identities, power and policing of young men in Mathare and Kaptembwo
What’s in a name and why it matters
Punitive Welfare on the Margins of the State
Police subjectivities in South Africa
The socio-ecology of childcare in Apartheid South Africa
Are Minorities Subjected to, or Insulated from, Racialized Policing in Majority–Minority Community Contexts
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison
Of Space and Alienation
Gender outlaws or a slow bending of norms? South African bisexual women's treatment of gender binaries
Queers against Corrective Development
Violence, Autochthony, and Identity Politics in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
| Citations per year | 1.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |