Margaret Sugden { 1978) stated that in a strati£ ied random sample of 2 000 Indian families drawn in the Durban-Pietermaritzburg area in 1974 "Some 15 per cent had never received any formal education, while of those who had attended school, 34 per cent had less than a standard six education and 9 per cent had completed matric" {p. 12). Greyling (1977) described the proportion of the labour force that had received limited formal education as "alarmingly large" {p. 115). These data are substantiated by more recent work {Butler-Adam, J.F. and Venter, W.M., 1982) describing conditions in 1978. Despite the inroads made in the last decade in Indian schooling and in the provision of tertiary educational facilities, it is felt likely that few supplementary educational facilities have been provided for adult Indians already in low-level employ who are likely to possess minimal formal education........