Die bestuur en administrasie van burgerlike beskerming in Suid-Afrika

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The history and development of civil protection in South Africa, as well as in seven worldstates, appear to have common characteristics. The phenomenon civil protection and theauthoritive allocation of protection values can be categorised in three models. Thetraditional model depicts the allocation of protection values based on inheritance fromgeneration to generation. The command approach refers to the allocation and exercising ofprotection values in accordance with authoritative and dictatorial government powers. Themarket model of civil protection refers to the free market mechanism within which thedemand and supply of protection values will determine the nature and extent of civilprotection measures. The origin and development of civil protection world wide can betraced back from the earliest times, i.e. from the family grouping through feudalism,mercantalism and city states up to the contemporary representative government systems.The general theory of civil protection, based on the semantics and genetics of civilprotection, identifies the authoritive allocation of protection values in accordance withfive perspectives viz;(a) the historic traditional perspective based on the evolutionary development ofprotection skills handed down from generation to generation;(b) the war perspective with threats against civilians, in times of war, being themotivation for civil protection;(c) the disaster- and emergency situation perspective with man- and natural causedthreats being the motivation for civil protection;(d) the generic perspective with logic in accordance with semantics and genetics beingthe motivation for understanding civil protection; and(e) the human need perspective with deprivation of human need satisfaction giving rise tocivil protection.In South Africa civil protection can be described in relation to informal civil protectionbased on resistance movements, to the left of the government-of-the-day political spectrumas well as to the right of the government-of-the-day political spectrum. Due to the earlystage of existence, research on right wing resistance can only be superfluous. Nongovernmentalorganisations represent the second formation of informal civil protection.South African civil protection based on legislation in the form of political acts as wellas executive legislation, formulated by the burocracy, the so-called regime, represents thethird formation of civil protection viz. formal civil protection.The efficiency of civil protection in South Africa is a bone of contemporary contention dueto present day unrest- and natural contingencies that threatens civilians. Theoreticalprinciples of efficiency, based on five approaches in determining organisation efficiencycan be compared to the status of civil protection in South Africa, by way of an introspectionand problem statement in order to evaluate the performance of civil protection. Aneclectic approach based on the five approaches mentioned, is an appropriate method ofevaluating organisational efficiency.The efficiency of the resistance- and non-governmental civil protection formations in SouthAfrica seems to be adequate for continued existence within the South African protectionenvironment. The formal formation of civil protection seems to have an inadequate standardof organisational efficiency. A normative future perspective is therefore essential. Thegeneric all encompassing nature of civil protection as phenomenon should be confirmed,along with the prerogative of non-governmental organisations and resistance movements to beacknowledged as civil protection formations.Formal civil protection in South Africa encompasses the entire governmental sector with allits branches and within all levels of hierarchy. The establishment of a Corporate CivilProtection Support and Management Prooramme, as a facilitating staff function for theprotection of civilians, is recommended in order to alleviate the present standard offormal civil protection inefficiency and in eliminating malperceptions on civil protection.The Corporate Management Programme, should eliminate the fragmentations, duplicationsand encroachments currently existing within formal civil protection in South Africa.Contributions to the efficiency of civil protection can also be realised.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University