Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa"[A] cogent and well informed discussion of the South African Police Service and the organisational problems it faces." Stephen Ellis Since the mid 1990s, South Africa has experienced a crime wave of such unprecedented proportions that the ability of the new democracy to form a stable civil society and govern effectively has been called into question. In this timely book, Mark Shaw describes how a police force that was so effective under apartheid