[Residents of the South African township of Wattville have expressed an interest in establishing a sister-community relationship with the city of Boston]
[Residents of the South African township of Wattville have expressed an interest in establishing a sister-community relationship with the city of Boston]
Leaflet produced as part of the South Africa Human Rights Campaign advertising a meeting on November 22 at Roxbury Community College to continue discussion of building a Boston-Wattville community relationship. The leaflet discusses the Wattville Town Council, Black Local Authority, Wattville Concerned Residence Committee, Independent Development Trust, Transvaal Provincial Authority, Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It explains that, in the past, the San Francisco-based United States-South Africa Sister Community Project has linked communities in South Africa that were threatened with forced removals with cities in the U.S. that could provide publicity and put pressure on the...
Leaflet produced as part of the South Africa Human Rights Campaign advertising a meeting on November 22 at Roxbury Community College to continue discussion of building a Boston-Wattville community relationship. The leaflet discusses the Wattville Town Council, Black Local Authority, Wattville Concerned Residence Committee, Independent Development Trust, Transvaal Provincial Authority, Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It explains that, in the past, the San Francisco-based United States-South Africa Sister Community Project has linked communities in South Africa that were threatened with forced removals with cities in the U.S. that could provide publicity and put pressure on the South African government. The leaflet says the civic association in Wattville provided a bold solution to overcrowding by taking over vacant land, owned by the local government, that had been unused since 1948 and declaring it a residential area for low-income housing. The new community was called Tamboville after Oliver Tambo, the former president of the African National Congress (ANC). The leaflet says residents of the township of Wattville are interested in establishing a sister-community relationship with Boston. The leaflet answers the questions: What and where is Wattville? What is a sister community? Why us? How is Wattville coping with its problems? What could we do for Wattville? What could Wattville do for us?
