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Foreign donor assistance and policing reform in South Africa

Within the international aid community there is increasing interest in directing resources toward “post‐conflict peace building’ in societies that have been affected by the ravages of civil war. One of the emerging concerns ‐within the broader peace‐building endeavour‐is with reconstructing civilian police agencies. This concern has translated into a burgeoning industry of bilateral and multilateral aid programmes to police abroad. This paper takes a closer look at recent South African experiences of donor assistance to criminal justice and policing reform. The first objective is to provide a descriptive overview of the South African experience of foreign donor assistance to the criminal justice sector. The second is to take a closer look at the micro‐politics of donor assistance as it comes to play itself out both within and between recipient and donor communities. A third objective of the paper is to identify phases within international assistance to police reform for the period 1994–1999 and in doing so to examine current reform pressures from international sources on the South African post‐colonial police institution.