Abstract
M.Ed. (Sociology of Education)
One of the outstanding characteristics of the present South Africa is an accountable Charter of Human Rights. Rapid changes have taken place on the political, economic and social levels lately. The labour market is influenced by the new dispensation. Most individuals, sometime or another, form part of the labour market and they should be explicitly made aware of their rights and responsibilities. The employer sector requires an education system
that will equip people with skills and integrity to take their place in the labour market. The
task of the teacher and school cannot be over-estimated.
The purpose of this study is to establish to what extent pupils on reaching St 10 have been
made aware of their rights in the labour market.
In order to achieve this, a questionnaire of six items has been developed based on the
literature study in Chapter II of this Script.
The variables obtained from this analysis, were applied to test structure and detailed
hypothesis concerning the various groups. In this comparison the Hotelling T-test was used
to examine the combination of the six facets of labour law and human rights. Where
significant multivariate differences were found, they were further investigated by means of
the Student's t-test. For three or more groups, the multivariate hypothesis on the six facets
of labour relations and human rights were investigated with the use of the one-way Manova.
Where significant multivariate differences were found, the univariate differences were
investigated further with an Anova and Scheffe.