(University of the Free State, 2006) Ferreira, Rialize
English: New security thinking, with its specific focus on human security, is different from
earlier perspectives, which focused primarily on state security. In South Africa, state
security is no longer threatened by conventional threats. With new challenges such
as global poverty, unemployment and economic decline, the needs of people are addressed
as much as those of the state or military strategy. An expansive approach to
the concept of human security has been infused in all domestic policies. Human security
includes the satisfaction of the basic needs of life, and encompasses the creation of the
social, political, economic, military, environmental and cultural conditions necessary for
survival, human rights and good governance.