South Africa's National Security Management System, 1972–90

1 June 1991

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Vol. 29 (2) , 253-273
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00002743

Abstract

Analyses of the South African state during the 1970s and 1980s all tried to come to grips with the rôle of the Security forces.¹Research justifiably ran in different directions, but the National Security Management System soon became an essential part of recent work,²albeit remaining very much of a mystery.³Since we need to know how it originated, developed, and operated in practice, as well as its legacy, this article attempts to describe the N.S.M.S. and offers avenues of interpretation.

Keywords

AFRICA'S
SOUTH
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
SECURITY MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL SECURITY
JUSTIFIABLY
ATTEMPTS
RAN
MYSTERY
1970S

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