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Item Education and ideology in South Africa : a sociological case study of African education.(1954) Kumalo, Cleopas.; Kuper, Leo.No abstract available.Item A study of a South African interracial neighbourhood.(1961) Russell, Margo.; Kuper, Leo.No abstract available.Item British emigration to Durban, South Africa : a sociological examination of Richardson's conceptual framework.(1968) Johnston, Peter Henry Wallace.; Higgins, E.; Dickie-Clark, H. F.No abstract available.Item Family planning : the relationship of socio-economic status ... to family planning among a group of Coloured women in Austerville, Durban.(1974) Lonsdale, Susan.; Shaw, Frances C.No abstract available.Item Transcendental Meditation : a religion for a post-industrial world?(1978) Blatchford, Gwendoline Clare Walton.; Watts, Hilstan Lett.No abstract available.Item The origins and formation of the Zulu Congregational Church, 1896- 1908.(1978) Collins, Deanne Philippa.; Maylam, Paul.No abstract available.Item Culture contact : the Afrikaner as a minority in Durban : a study in network theory and practice.(1981) Close, Mordaunt Ernest.; Watts, Hilstan Lett.No abstract available.Item A study of some aspects of school guidance in meeting the demands of contemporary Western society.(1981) Ezekowitz, Ida Lilian.; Watts, Hilstan Lett.; Dobie, Bruce Alexander.No abstract available.Item Socio-political attitudes of the urban African elites in Durban.(1981) Zulu, Paulus Mzomuhle.; Schlemmer, Lawrence.No abstract available.Item Job satisfaction of Indian married women in the clothing manufacturing industry in Durban and it's effects on their interpersonal family relationships.(1983) Chetty, Thiagaraj Dasaratha.; Schoombee, Gert Franstee.No abstract available.Item Land and labour in Weenen County, Natal : c. 1880-1910.(1985) Burton-Clark, Ian.; Sitas, Aristides.No abstract available.Item A study of some factors influencing the individual-organization interface and their effects on job satisfaction and human performance among some agencies in the Durban customs clearing and forwarding industry.(1986) Backhouse, Michael Allan.; Schlemmer, Lawrence.; Allen, Roger D.In this study an attempt is made to explore the individual-organization interface -- i.e., the nature of the relationship that prevails between an organization and its members -- and determine its effects upon such outcome variables as job satisfaction, instrumentality belief and work performance. Attributes of the individual (human needs) and the organization (dimensions of organizational climate), when combined, are hypothesized to influence this interface. This investigation is based upon a sample of fourteen shipping agencies drawen from among some agencies within the Durban Customs Clearing and Forwarding Industry. Agencies in this sample are divided into two broad categories, namely members and non members of the Durban Forwarders Association. Two hundred and eighty-three managerial and clerical employees from these agencies participated in this study. Scales designed to measure a set of work related needs, organizational climate, job satisfaction, instrumentality belief and work performance are administered to groups of employees from each of the participating agencies. These scales, except for that measuring organizational climate, are subject to a statistical procedure designed to calculate reliability. Only the scales that satisfy a minimum requirement of seventy percent for reliability are used in any further analysis. A factor analysis is carried out on the refined data for the scale of work related needs. Four factors emerged, surgency, passivity, assertiveness and financial incentive. The need indices together with these factors are intercorrelated using a Pearson's Product Moment Correlation. The results show that there are distinctly different patterns of organizational climate prevailing in member and non member organizations. Member agencies tend to be affiliation orientated; non member agencies, achievement orientated. A multivariate analysis is repeatedly calculated to identify the need-climate combinations that are related to one or more of the outcome variables. Canonical correlation is then employed to calculate the variance explained by each group of combination variables. The results show that the outcome variables explain approximately eighteen percent of the total variance in the data. In conclusion it is suggested that more research be undertaken using different sets of outcome variables to establish grounds for comparing the results of similar studies. It is further suggested that research of the nature can be used by an Organization Development Consultant as a diagnostic tool for the purpose of assessing the relationship that prevails between the individual and the organization.Item The origins of Phoenix, 1957-1976 : the Durban City Council and the Indian housing question.(1987) Bailey, David Eric.; Watts, Hilstan Lett.; Grest, Jeremy.The period between the nineteen fifties and the seventies in South Africa witnessed the emergence of a central state housing policy incorporating large scale mass housing for Black people in delineated Group Areas based on segregated racial zoning policies originally initiated in Durban. During this period the local state in Durban began to exercise the responsibility assigned to it since 1920 by providing the previously neglected housing for Coloureds and Indians. As a case-study detailing the origins of the Indian township of Phoenix this study explores how power is exercised at the local level. It focuses on local representation and accounts for the growth in bureaucratic power and subsequent decline of the City Council regarding matters of housing in Durban. The study argues that in order to conceptualise the 'local state' and its 'relative autonomy' from the central state it is necessary to analyse local social relations. As such the study focusses on the power relations existing between the City Council and the bureaucracy; the City Council and the Indian community; and the bureaucracy and The Natal Estates Ltd. Data have been drawn from primary sources including municipal records and oral interviews, and from secondary sources which have provided the historical context for the study. The relationship between the City Council and the bureaucracy has been found to have been dominated not only by the technical expertise and resources of the bureaucracy, but also by the intervention of powerful personalities holding senior positions within the bureaucracy. Both the City Council and the bureaucracy proved to have been instrumental in ensuring that opposing demands from the various sectors of the Indian community did not interfere with their plans for housing at Phoenix. In the same manner, the bureaucracy's determination to maintain control over housing and ensure the reproduction of urban labour power led to the cooperation of the local, regional and central state levels, which forced Natal Estates into protracted land negotiations where the Company was finally pressurised into selling under threat of central state expropriation.Item Class, consciousness and conflict in the Natal Midlands, 1940- 1987 : the case of the B.T.R. Sarmcol workers.(1987) Bonnin, Deborah Rosemary.; Sitas, Aristides.No abstract available.Item The effectiveness of the social condition of education in an Indian pre-primary school.(1987) Singh, Sundrakanthi.; Naicker, Subramunian Anand.; Stears, Louw-Haardt.No abstract available.Item A comparative study of attitudes of urban Black communities in selected areas of Durban towards evolutionist strategies for social change in South Africa.(1988) Naidoo, Kammila.; Schoombee, Gert Franstee.No abstract available.Item Pondo migrant workers in Natal : rural and urban strains.(1988) Christensen, Finn Piers.; Sitas, Aristides.No abstract available.Item Gender as a mechanism of social control amongst Black workers in the textile industry in the Durban metropolitan area.(1988) Perumal, Devina.; Schoombee, Gert Franstee.No abstract available.Item A core-periphery analysis of population and urbanisation patterns in Natal/KwaZulu.(1989) Jeffrey, David Mclachlan.; Haarhoff, Errol.; Nattrass, Jill.; Corbett, Peter.This study aims to expose the impact of racial separation policies on the spatial distribution of the population groups in Natal/ KwaZulu, and on Black urbanisation, within a core-periphery framework. Chapter One focuses on global population and urbanisation trends to highlight the difference between First and Third World characteristics, and applies the First and Third World distinction to South Africa. Chapter Two outlines the impact of colonialism, apartheid and separate development on the spatial distribution of the population in South Africa, and especially Natal/KwaZulu. Chapter Three discusses the Friedmann core-periphery model, and the application of the core-periphery model to the Southern African region, as well as the modernisation/dependency debate in terms of its impact on shaping differing perspectives of the relationship between core and peripheral regions a8d perspectives of the urbanisation process. Chapter Four is comprised of an empirical examination of the coreperiphery structure of the Natal/KwaZulu regional economy, and the core-periphery distribution of its population settlement, both between and within such, regions, as well as the geographical distribution of the types of population settlements and the size of the urban population. An assessment of the size and distribution of the population in the Durban Functional Region is also made. Chapter Five draws the main conclusions of the previous Chapters together, critically examines the validity of the Friedmann model in terms of its application to the Southern African and Natal/ KwaZulu regions and discusses the development/underdevelopment relationship between Natal and KwaZulu and its implications for the immediate future.Item Mkhumbane our home : African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960.(1989) Edwards, Iain Lulach.No abstract available.