Childhood and education: raised in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, student movement, move to England early 1960s, return to Johannesburg, interaction with individuals banned by the government; career: archivist for the South African Institute of Race Relations; interest in labor relations; work with South Africa Labor and Development Research Unit [SALDRU], 1975-: colleagueship with director Franci s Wilson, training social science students and returning scholars from exile, initial funding from the Anglo-American Chairman's Fund and the Ford Foundation, political effects of the First Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa, training black student interns to develop research skills; SALDRU's contribution to the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa: frustration of data collection without intervention, importance of distinction between rural and urban poverty; effects of study; Francis Wilson's summation of the study, Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge; appointment to chair the South African Wage Board
Human rights workers--South Africa; Educators--South Africa; College students, Black--South Africa; Poverty--South Africa; Horner, Dudley; Wilson, Francis, 1939-; South African Institute of Race Relations. Archives Dept; University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa; Uprooting poverty, the South African challenge
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Origin Information
1999
Physical Description
56 pages
Note (Biographical)
Educator, activist
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Interviewed by Mary Marshall Clark on August 8, 1999
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
Note (Provenance)
Gift of Dudley Horner
Note (Copyright)
Copyright held by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006.
Language
English
Library Location
Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University