- Title
- Perceptions of unemployed males migrating to Umtata, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- Mbundwini, Wincey Nokuzola
- Subject
- Migration, Internal - South Africa - Umtata, Unemployed - South Africa - Attitudes, Unemployment - Effect of inflation on - South Africa - Umtata, Unemployment - Social aspects - South Africa - Umtata, Unemployment - Psychological aspects - South Africa - Umtata
- Date
- 2012-08-27
- Type
- Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier
- uj:3220
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6631
- Description
- M.Ed., This study dealt with the perceptions of unemployed males migrating to Umtata in the Eastern Cape. These males migrated from various Transkei districts to Umtata, hoping to get jobs. Most of them had been retrenched from different work places in the Republic of South Africa, and have decided to come to Umtata which, according to them, is economically better off than their small towns. Attempts to accommodate them were made by the Umtata Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church sisters, together with the Umtata Municipality. They unanimously agreed to accommodate the migrants at the Municipality's Jubilee Hall. Since then it has been the Welfare Organisation's concern to supply them with food. The Municipality's other contribution has been to offer them free training towards life skills, such as, bricklaying, welding, painting and carpentry. The researcher has attempted to discover how unemployment and migration has affected the migrants' personalities and has tried to find a possible remedy for this. In her findings, she has also discovered that they came to Umtata hoping for permanent employment, as Umtata is the largest town in the former Transkei. When this did not materialize, they were emotionally disturbed and their social esteem also changed as their marriages ended.
- Contributor
- Dr. D. Daniels
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