A socio-economic survey of the Amatola Basin: interim report

• Main Authors: Bekker, S B, De Wet, C, Manona, C W
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research 1981
• Subjects: Ciskei (South Africa) > Rural conditions; Agriculture > South Africa > Ciskei; Middledrift (South Africa); Fingo (African people); Hlubi (African people); Amatola River Watershed (South Africa) > Economic conditions; Amatola River Watershed (South Africa) > Social conditions
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2282

Early in 1981, Professor S. Bekker of Rhodes University was invited to attend a meeting of the Amatola Basin Steering Committee of the Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute (ARDRI) at the University of Fort Hare. At this meeting, Professor Bekker was invited to undertake a socio-economic survey of the Amatola Basin. The Board of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University gave Professor Bekker permission in February 1981 to undertake the research project on condition that it was conducted in the fashion this Institute usually requires. It was subsequently agreed that the survey, known as 'Amatola Basin VII: Socio-economic survey', was to establish the basic demographic, kinship, consumption and employment patterns of the residents of the Amatola Basin. Practices and traditions related to dry land agriculture would also be identified === Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)