Effectively designed and organized, combining historical and contemporary data analysis with insights drawn from interviews of “leading South African security experts and practitioners,” Security, Governance, and State Fragility in South Africa is an excellent example of how scholarly principles and methods applied to increasingly complex security challenges of the 21st Century can raise important questions and provide policy-relevant recommendations for action.

Robert H. "Robin" Dorff, Plymouth State University

An enlightening snapshot of the failure; by bad governance, to establish safety and security in post-apartheid South Africa. It serves as a hard lesson to all who naively believe that they can turn governance in a day or a year into so-called “democracies.”

L.D. “Niël” Barnard, Former Head of South Africa's National Intelligence

Security, Governance, and State Fragility in South Africa is a detailed study into the latent fragility South Africa currently finds itself in—a consequence of a misguided political trajectory and poor policy decisions the post-1994 political leadership embarked on. Meticulously researched, Dr Mienie’s book clearly exposes the impact of poor governance on economic progress, and on both domestic stability and national security. He exposes the myth of South Africa’s regional and international standing by superimposing the country’s impressive statistics on the reality of daily life. These problems are further expounded through unchecked populist politics by several of country’s leaders.

Eeben Barlow, Founder and Chairman of Executive Outcomes and Chairman of STTEP International.

Security, Governance and State Fragility in South Africa is of great importance to all South Africans, and more particularly members of the South African Government to whom it is especially addressed. It is also crucial to non-South Africans who are involved in comparative research of security and aspects of governance and state fragility in their own countries and globally

Deon H. Van Zyl, retired judge on the High Court of South Africa