From the SADF to the SANDF: safeguarding South Africa for a better life for all?

This paper focuses on violence in relation to the South African Defense Force (SADF) in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the post-1994 dispensation. During that latter period, the military has undergone significant change in the context of South Africa's broader transition from authoritarian to democratic rule.