DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY

I, Kirasha Maharaj, hereby declare that: i. The research reported in this thesis, except where otherwise indicated is my original research. ii. This thesis has not been submitted for any degree or examination at any other university iii. This thesis does not contain other person’s data, pictures, graphs or other information unless specifically acknowledged as being sourced from those persons. iv. This thesis does not contain other authors writing unless specifically acknowledged as being sourced from other authors. Where other written sources have been quoted, then: a) their words have been re-written but the general information attributed to them has been referenced; b) where their exact words have been used, their writing has been placed inside quotation marks, and referenced. v. This thesis does not contain text, graphic or tables copied and pasted from the Internet, unless specifically acknowledged, and the source being detailed in the dissertation and in the References sections