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February 4, 2000
Professor to discuss uprooting poverty
PRINCETON, NJ -- Francis Wilson will speak on "Uprooting Poverty in South Africa"at 4:30 pm on February 22 in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Visiting professor in public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School this year, Wilson has been a faculty member in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town for 30 years. He was the founder of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, of which he is now director.
Among his numerous publications are Labour in the South African Gold Mines and Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge (with M. Ramphele).
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.