“Because the country says they have to change” : an analysis of a diversity intervention and its effects on a South African Police Service station

• Main Author: Faull, Andrew
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Diversity Studies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8111

Includes bibliographical references. === The shift from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa, brought with it a plethora of questions concerning ideas of nationhood, citizenship, and organisational transformation. Integrally caught up in the revolution, the South Africa Police Service (SAPS) faces transformative challenges on scales far larger than most other organisations in the country. From being the strong arm of the oppressive elite, it has has to restructure and rearticulate its function while simultaneously attempting to maintain law and order. Like many other corporations and organisations, the SAPS has engaged in interventions aimed at aiding the fluidity of this process. This thesis is an analysis of one such intervention. It attempts to ascertain the extent to which members are changing as a result of particular diversity workshops conducted in a region of the Western Cape.