The UNIZULU IR is a collection of all University of Zululand thesis and dissertations available electronically through the Internet @ https://uzspace.unizulu.ac.za/ or via the Library Catalogue. Other scholarly publications of the university researchers will also be made available in due course. The Institutional Repository (IR) has been established to manage, preserve, and maintain the research output of the University of Zululand. It enables the university to provide access to its research and avail this electronically to the greater research community locally and globally.