Oral history interview with Dudley Horner, 1999

Biographical Note

Educator, activist

Scope and Contents

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 Francis 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

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa.
• Clark, Mary Marshall, interviewer.
• College students, Black--South Africa.
• Educators--South Africa--Interviews.
• Horner, Dudley--Interviews.
• Human rights workers--South Africa--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Poverty--South Africa.
• South African Institute of Race Relations. Archives Dept.
• University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit.
• Wilson, Francis, 1939---Uprooting poverty, the South African challenge.

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