Now Everyone is Afraid: The Changing Face of Policing in South Africa

Condition : Good, considering age.

First Edition, CIIR, 1988, Medium-format paperback - Civil rights - 251pp.

The face of policing in South Africa has changed dramatically in the past two years.

Familiar pictures of armoured trucks, teargas and heavily armed policemen have disappeared from the newspapers and TV screens.

Now the hidden face of policing in the townships has also changed. New black police forces have replaced the security forces in many areas. Special constables (kitskonstabels) and municipal police patrol on foot and are in the townships at all times. In some regions homeland police or vigilantes have taken over the role of controlling black communities.

The wall of silence that surrounds police action means few outsiders know what is going on. Activists, fieldworkers and human rights lawyers claim that a brutal new reign of terror has been unleashed.

This book looks at how things have changed and why it happened. It also tries to document the action of the new police forces.

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