Oral history interview with Mary-Jane Morifi 1999
- Name
- Morifi, Mary-Jane (Interviewee)
- Morris, Len (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Mary-Jane Morifi 1999
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Mary-Jane Morifi : oral history, 1999
- Abstract
- Initial involvement with the Carnegie Corporation of New York: studying at the University of Cape Town [UCT], participation in Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa [Second Inquiry]; researching First Carnegie Inquiry and its effects: the Job Reservation Act, Afrikaner affirmative action; thoughts on the Second Inquiry: not as much impact as first due to lack of g overnment support, impact of apartheid on acceptance of the study, study as testimony of poverty in rural South Africa, other researchers on project, methodology; different reactions of Second Inquiry interviewees to researchers; personal impact of Carnegie project experience: interest in nongovernmental and educational institutions, formation own company based on black economic empowerment; Second Inquiry conference at UCT; political role of research in the 1980s; ideas for addressing poverty through women and media; role of the Legal Resource Centre in giving poor blacks access to legal aid; role of Carnegie and organizations in eliminating future poverty.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- Sociologists; South Africa Economic conditions; South Africa Social conditions; Morifi, Mary-Jane; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1999
- Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 44 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Activist
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Note
- 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.
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Len Morris on August 6, 1999.
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7584932
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-0t64-2q15
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.