The leaflet explains efforts by the Wattville Concerned Residents Committee to relieve seriously overcrowded housing and maintain a secure and well-organized community by establishing the residential areas of Tamboville 1 and 2 on previously unused land. The Independent Development Trust has promised to fund services there, including water, sewage and roads. However, developing the land requires an agreement with the white Benoni City Council and the Wattville Town Council. The Wattville Town Council, which had planned to have private developers build houses in the area that would be too expensive for most Wattville residents, has refused to sign the agreement. The leaflet says the Wattville...
The leaflet explains efforts by the Wattville Concerned Residents Committee to relieve seriously overcrowded housing and maintain a secure and well-organized community by establishing the residential areas of Tamboville 1 and 2 on previously unused land. The Independent Development Trust has promised to fund services there, including water, sewage and roads. However, developing the land requires an agreement with the white Benoni City Council and the Wattville Town Council. The Wattville Town Council, which had planned to have private developers build houses in the area that would be too expensive for most Wattville residents, has refused to sign the agreement. The leaflet says the Wattville Concerned Residents Committee, a progressive civic association, has been involved in negotiations, known as the Benoni Joint Negotiating Forum, to create a single municipality including all races, with a single tax base that would benefit all area residents. The leaflet asks people to write Leon Wessels, Minister of Local Government and National Housing, to say the Wattville Town Council is acting unreasonably by refusing to sign the Land Availability Agreement which will enable the Independent Development Trust to release funds for development of Tamboville 1, demand that the Wattville Concerned Residents Committee be recognized as the legitimate representative of the people of Wattville, insist the government should disband the Black Local Authorities, and demand that the de Klerk government's order to merge the Black Local Authorities with white town councils before January 1993 be repealed. Copies of letters should be faxed to Nigel Mandy, Transvaal Provincial Authority Consultant, and A. de Plessis, Benoni Town Clerk. • Efforts to develop new land • Moves to create a single municipality • WHAT YOU CAN DO
