JMC, noun

Plurals:
JMCs, JMC’s, or unchanged.
Initial letters of Joint Management Committee (one of about 500 local organizations), or of Joint Management Centre (one of twelve regional bodies), components of a security structure established in 1985 under the control of the State Security Council, with the aim of defusing unrest, co-ordinating government action, and organizing welfare and social services at local and regional level. Also attributive.
1986 A. Sparks in Cape Times 18 Dec. 12A series of Joint Management Committees (JMCs) which are the local limbs of an elaborate intelligence network called the National Security Management System, have sought to re-establish the legitimacy of the state authorities by identifying and redressing local grievances.
1987 P. Cull in E. Prov. Herald 30 May 4The JMCs in the Eastern Cape..had links with both the Regional Development Advisory Committee for the Eastern Cape and the East Cape Strategic Task Force.
1987 New Nation 11 June 7R90-million has been pumped into Alexandra, for example, through the Joint Management Centre (JMC) system, with the aim of appeasing the people and distracting them from their real political demands.
1987 New Nation 22 Oct. 22The military strategists around PW Botha have taken a hard line on the extra-parliamentary opposition and activated the National Security Management System (NSMS) with its several hundred Joint Management Committees (JMC).
1988 S. Afr. Panorama Jan. 14The prompt action that..provided immediate flood relief is largely due to the success..of civil defence organisations, and the joint management committee (JMC) in Durban.
1988 Race Rel. Survey 1986 (S.A.I.R.R.) II. 512The minister of defence..officially acknowledged the existence of 12 bodies designed to ‘defuse unrest’...These bodies, known as joint management centres (JMCs) were designed to provide the government with an ‘early warning system’ for internal threats to state security.
1988 Now Everyone Is Afraid (Catholic Inst. for Internat. Rel.) 11The Joint Management Centres (JMC’s) that fall under the SSC are made up of important bureaucrats and ‘key people’ at a local level. JMC’s meet under the chairpersonship of the local head of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and try to address local security problems. From mid-1986 it appears that these structures took responsibility for all security decisions.
1989 Race Rel. Survey 1988–9 (S.A.I.R.R.) 524The chairmen or members of the JMCs..are functionaries of state departments and provinces and officers of the security forces...The aim of the JMCs was to provide departmental inputs at regional levels so that action could be coordinated.
1990 Weekly Mail 21 Dec. (Suppl.) 13For five years a network of Joint Management Centres and mini-JMCs had become the SSC’s eyes and ears, and had implemented its dictates.
Initial letters of Joint Management Committee (one of about 500 local organizations), or of Joint Management Centre (one of twelve regional bodies), components of a security structure established in 1985 under the control of the State Security Council, with the aim of defusing unrest, co-ordinating government action, and organizing welfare and social services at local and regional level. Also attributive.
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