Abstract: | This chapter begins with a summary of conscription law and practice in South Africa as at January 1989, looking at liability for service, the normal course of national service, unusual types of service, exemption and deferment, and objections to and evasion of service. The second part describes developments in 1989 as they relate to the period of conscription, the brain drain, suicides, numbers of conscripts placed in organizations other than the South African Defence Force (SADF) for their service, prisoners of conscience, and anticonscription organizations and activity. Notes, ref. |