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There are a number of police bodies in South Africa functioning at regional and national levels (see Table 8.1) and it is necessary to distinguish these briefly before any consideration can be given to their role in politics.
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P. Frankel, ‘South Africa: the Politics of Police Control’, Comparative Politicsvol. 12, no. 4, 1979, pp. 486–7.
K. Grundy, Soldiers Without Politics: Blacks in the South African Armed Forces (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1983, pp. 147–8.
J. Brewer, A. Guelke, I. Hume, E. Moxon-Browne and R. Wilford, Police, Public Order and the State (London: Macmillan, 1988).
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Brewer, J. (1988). The Police in South African Politics. In: Johnson, S. (eds) South Africa: No Turning Back. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19499-5_8
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