The South African intelligence services: from apartheid to democracy, 1960-2005

This book is the first-ever history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa's intelligence organisations and structures. It covers: the apartheid periodof 1960-90; the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94; and the post-apartheid period of new intelligence dispensation from 1994-2005. In the first period, it examines not only the apartheid government's intelligence dispensation and operations, but also those of the African National Congress, and its partner, the South African Communist Party (ANC/SACP) - as well as those ofother liberation movements and the 'independent homelands' under the apartheid system.Examining the civilian, military and police intelligence structures and operations in all periods, as well as the extraordinarily complicated apartheid government's security bureaucracy (or 'securocracy') and its structures and units, the book discusses how South Africa's Cold War 'position' influencedits relationships with various other world powers, especially where intelligence co-operation came to bear.It outlines South Africa's regional relationships and concerns - the foremost being its activities in South-West Africa (Namibia) and its relationship with Rhodesia through 1980. Finally, it examines the various legislative and other governance bases for the existence and operations of South Africa's intelligence structures - in all periods - and the influences that such activities as the Rivonia Trial (at one end of the history) or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (at the other end) had on the evolutionof these intelligence questions throughout South Africa's modern history. INDICE: 1. Introduction: South African Intelligence in Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1960-2005. 2. South Africa 1960-2000: Changing History, Changing International Context. 3. Republican Intelligence: The Birth of South Africa's Intelligence Capability, 1948 to 1965. 4. The ANC's Revolutionary War, 1960-1978. 5. The Threat Grows: The Rise of the 'Securocracy', 1965-1972. 6. 'Total Strategy' and Scandal: The 'Securocratisation' of the Government, 1972-1978.7.. The Assassins' Web: The Rise of the National Intelligence and Counter-Revolutionary Structures, 1978-1985. 8. Crossing the Rubicon: 'The Gloves Come Off' for the Total Counter-Revolutionary Strategy, 1985-1990. 9. The Failure of the ANC's Revolutionary War Strategy, 1978-1990. 10.. Negotiating a Settlement: Reform and Retrenchment For All, 1990-1994. 11. The New South Africa's Intelligence Environment, 1994-1995. 12. Problems in Progress: Control, Oversight and Accountability in South Africa's Intelligence Dispensation, 1996-2005. 13. Conclusion: Still Fighting The War - The Legacy of South Africa's Intelligence.

• ISBN: 978-0-415-43397-6
• Editorial: Routledge
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés