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This study is based on a survey of Soweto conducted in January 1997, which was already initiated by Danny Kekana in 1995. It was co-ordinated and written by a team of researchers based mainly in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive profile of Soweto through the use of a household survey. While the media has targeted Soweto, as an area of interest and concern, up until this survey there has not been a comprehensive sociological study. Although there has been many small scale studies conducted, many of them tend to concentrate on specific issues and fail to give the picture as a whole. As a result little is known about the:
This study attempts to fill these gaps by looking at the different issues listed below:
The study is in its revised form and basically highlights the type of information available in the full documented version "Change and Continuity: A Survey of Soweto in the Late 1990's". Full credit of this document goes to the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. For further enquiries on detailed information pertaining to the listed issues, please contact: Dr Alan Morris REFERENCES Morris, A.; B. Bozzoli; J. Cook; O. Crankshaw; L. Gilbert; L. Lehutso-Phooko; D. Posel; Z. Tshandu & E. van Huyssteen 1999: Change and Continuity: A Survey of Soweto in the Late 1990's. University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg.
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