A sociological analysis of the problem faced by the development of the small scale business industries at Esikhawini in KwaZulu-Natal Province

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dc.contributor.advisorGlass, H.G.L.
dc.contributor.authorMsomi, Mbongiseni Cosmos
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-27T10:01:59Z
dc.date.available2010-01-27T10:01:59Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionDissertation presented in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Masters of Industrial Sociology, in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zululand, Faculty of Arts, 2002.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on the problems facing the development of the small-scale business industries at Esikhawini in Kwazulu Natal Province. The first chapter brings forth the primary information about the small-scale business as it started in other countries does. It came to South Africa with the missionaries from Europe. Via the Mediterranean Sea as their route until eventually reached Africa exchange of commodities begun. The African continent has generally poor infrastructure and because of illiteracy Europeans came to exploit African minerals and took Africans into slavery. All that missionaries introduced was their concern with literacy and religious instructions Missionaries failed to develop an African entrepreneur class. In chapter two-literature review shows that there are many problems that hinder the development of the small-scale business industries that could not be developed the government. Other authors reveal that the government failed to attend some of the problems because of the lack of skills for running the small-scale business. The geographical location of the business, as some of the business is located far from the source of raw material is another factor. The competition among the small -scale business further made them not to support the communities. Thus resulted in the decline of the small-scale business industries. Chapter three of the study reveals the purposive sampling method that was used in this study. It is because of its appropriateness to the study, that the data collection was done using self -administered questionnaires. The questionnaires comprises both close and open-ended questionnaires. They were distributed among the workers and the owners of the small -scale business industries In chapter four the data collected was analyzed using tables and the pie charts, in the data analysis the researcher found that the small scale business industries at Esikhawini were owned by the single untrained people, which contributes to their decline. Most of them know nothing about the running of the business and there is a lot of competition among these business which is a further hindrance to the development of this industry. In Chapter five, the researcher recommens and concluded that the problems feeing the development of the small -scale business industries is the global problem, because it is not centered at Kwazulu-Natal Province only, but all the small-scale industries in the world suffer from similar problems. The researcher suggests that the government's intervention through forming a department that would deal with small-scale industries could make small-scale business industries to develop to some considerable level.en_US
dc.identifier.other270283
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/211
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSmall business--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.en_US
dc.subjectRural industries--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal.en_US
dc.titleA sociological analysis of the problem faced by the development of the small scale business industries at Esikhawini in KwaZulu-Natal Provinceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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