Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing

This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated from a current to a past organising principle of the “security imaginary” in the period 1990 to 1994 and as the post-apartheid period commenced after the 1994 elections.Department of HE and Training approved lis