SUPPORT AND PATIENCE DURING THE DIFFERENT STAGES OF THIS RESEARCH.

This study was done with the co-operation and support of several people. I am particularly grateful to the following: • Dr Nithi Muthukrishna and Mrs Heloise Rocher who gave me advise and guidance and for their perceptive and scholarly supervision of the study is well as the editing of the report. • ProfL.G.B.Ndabandaba, my mentor, for his guidance and direction at certain stages of the research process. • The principal of the school in this study for his warm welcome and his enthusiastic participation in the interviews. • Ms Sbongile Dlamini for competently co-ordinating the interviews. • Mesdames Phindile Strydom and Nomusa Hadebe for their valuable contribution as research assistants. • Parents, pupils, staff and the Board of Management of the school for their help in various ways during the research process. • Happiness Mohlakoana for baby-sitting my children and for supervising thei