New Wine in Old Wine Skins: III. The Comer Stone

Bruce, F. F.

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“…9 As a result, the total number of personnel across all race groups initially declined. 10 Though the moratorium was lifted in 1996, 11 the SAPS only began a formal process of recruitment in 1998, after which recruitment was maintained at relatively modest levels.…”

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NEW BLOOD: Implications of en masse recruitment for the South African Police Service

Bruce¹

2016

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This article is concerned with the process of en masse recruitment implemented within the South African Police Service since 2002. As a result of this process the personnel strength of the SAPS has increased dramatically from 120 549 in 2002 to 199 345 in 2012, an increase of over 65%. A large proportion of SAPS personnel are now people who have joined since 1994 and particularly since 2002. En masse recruitment has in part addressed the legacy of apartheid by promoting racial and gender representativeness in the SAPS. In so doing it has facilitated entry into the civil service by a significant number of black, and particularly African,South Africans, thus contributing to ‘class formation’. At the same time the process does not ensure political non-partisanship on the part of the SAPS. It also has not necessarily contributed to ‘better policing’ in South Africa. While it may have increased the potential that the SAPS will enjoy legitimacy, this cannot be achieved by recruitment alone.

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2016

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Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235

2020

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This chapter looks at two interconnected texts which were published within two or three decades of each other. I begin with Aelianus Tacticus' Tactical Theory, a treatise which harks back to a bygone age in Greek military history. 1 It draws on works which themselves looked back to Polybius and earlier, 2 and thus sets out prescriptions for the organisation and formation of troops which derive from the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Consciously archaising, it is also heavily derivative: much of it appears to be a reproduction of a lost treatise by the Stoic philosopher Posidonius, the same text which Arrian seems to have drawn on in his Tactics two or three decades later. 3 Arrian must have been aware of Aelian's treatise (the texts were presumably written and read within similar circles), which means that he compiled his own rewrite of Posidonius' original in conscious relation to Aelian's version, and perhaps in the expectation that readers would compare the two. There is no direct interaction, but the differences between the texts-and their respective interactions with other texts and authorityfigures-offer an opportunity to explore different models of literary and cross-cultural interaction, occurring across language barriers, between different levels of social and political authority, and between different kinds of writing. Aelian's interactions with Frontinus Aelian begins the preface to his Tactical Theory in time-honoured fashion by explaining his reasons for writing. He anchors his efforts in a long-established Greek military writing tradition * I am grateful to Rebecca Langlands, James Uden and CUP's anonymous readers for their feedback on various drafts of this chapter. 1 On its date (sometime between 106 and 113), see Dain 1946: 18-19; Devine 1989: 31. Hereafter, I will refer to Aelianus Tacticus simply as Aelian, not to be confused with Steven Smith's Aelian later in this volume. 2 Devine 1995. 3 The exact relationship between these texts remains a matter of debate (for run-down of views, see Devine 1989: 32-3; Stadter 1978), with Asclepiodotus' Tactics also part of the picture. Arrian notes at Tact. 44 that he was writing in the twentieth year of Hadrian's reign, thus around 136-137.

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Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235

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NEW BLOOD: Implications of en masse recruitment for the South African Police Service

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