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Table 6.1: The various household heads in the urban area of Ulundi interviewed by
residence in 2007
Places ofResidence
(sections)
Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage
A 33 12 12
B North 44 15.9 27.9
B South 51 18.5 46.4
C 62 22.5 68.8
0 86 31.2 100
Total 276 100
The zones are namely sections A, B North, B South, C and D sections (Figure 4.1). Of the
276 households interviewed, the majority ofthem (31.2%) were from D section. The largest
number of houses in D section may be attributed to the small sizes of the building plots as
compared to places like B North and certain portions ofC section.
The exclusion of the surrounding rural areas from the abovementioned residential zones is
because the researcher aggregates the rural areas by interviewing their traditional leadership
and ward councillors. The intention of this approach is to fulfill the second objective of the
study. The five rural areas namely, Mkhazane, Mabedlane, Mbangayiya, Mtikini and
Mbhoshongweni are under the leadership of Inkosi Mpungose. Also in charge of the
developmental interests of the rural areas are the local political representative who works as
ward councillor.
6.3.2 Gender and level ofeducation ofhousehold heads
Table 6.2 presents an overview of the gender of household heads interviewed in the urban
area of Ulundi in 2007. About two-thirds ofthe interviewees were females in the urban area
of Ulundi. These statistics do not show any difference when compared with the rural figures.
Given a sample of 10 out of 100 homesteads in the Mbhoshongweni area, it emerged that
females headed over 75% of the households in the area. The Mkhazane rural area had the
largest number of households in Ulundi with about 250 households. With a sample
population of25 households in the Mkhazane rural area, about 63% ofhousehold heads were
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