In South Africa, for now, the deployment of the army troops to assist the police has brought about an uneasy calm. But what South Africans are seeing is a negative peace – where a degree of normality returns, but in which the underlying causes of the conflict remain.
AuthorLindy Heinecken
Prof Lindy Heinecken is Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University.
She lectures in industrial and political sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University.