An investigation into some basic values of people resident in the rural area of Ndlangubo, KwaZulu

The study aims to investigate people's general orientations to life with a view to identifying those which facilitate or impede development; and to determine people's perceptions of how to improve life in their communities, ie strategies for development. Information was gathered in an area south of Empangeni, considered to be a marginal rural black community, Ndlangubo.

This document from the archive, along with various others from the 1960s and 1970s, was stamped ‘confidential’. After some debate, staff of the Development and Population Studies programmes (University of KwaZulu-Natal) have taken the decision to digitise and make them available for the following reasons. Firstly it is normal practise to release once-confidential documents into the public domain after a long period of time. Secondly, the documents marked confidential are not raw research material but rather finished research reports. The author has given permission for this, her dissertation, to be placed online.