| | "We believe that practices acceptable in civilised nations should characterise the methods and the procedures used by the police in the enforcement of law (Inkatha, 'The Statement of Belief' , appendix 2, Mare & Hamilton, 1987:228)" It is widely accepted now that, under P.W. Botha, the centre of political power in SA slipped from parliament and from second and third tier levels of government into the hands of the executive and the military and police. Heading the junta that, in effect, had ultimate control over the direction of the country was the State Security Council (SSC), operating through the National Security Management System (NSMS). Thus even the racially exclusive democracy that whites had enjoyed over the years increasingly became a shell; and the incorporation of Indians and 'coloureds' (through the tricameral parliamentary structure) occurred into the same empty space where political voices echo but have little effect (See Moss, 1980, for an early example of analysis of the total strategy within which the new structures were created, and Seegers 1988). |
