African Activist Archive

Contents: End of an Era: The Hard Part Has Just Begun • Conceiving the Dream in Alexandra • What of the Sister Community Project? • Sister Community Contact List • U.S. Communities Devise Ways to Assist • New Directions: Technical Assistance • New Public Administration Exchange Program • The newsletter discusses the new era of reconstruction and development in South Africa, with plans for new houses and roads, accessing water and electricity, and creating jobs. The legacies of apartheid and racial conquest run deep. Communities throughout the country face overwhelming difficulties, with limited resources and skills. The United States South Africa Sister Community Project is a non-profit organization which seeks to support local and community-based initiatives for social and economic justice in South Africa. Since 1987, it has promoted linkages between U.S. cities and disadvantaged communities in South Africa looking for international assistance in their struggles. A map of South Africa shows the linkages between Wichita and Thornhill, St. Paul and Lawaaikamp, Memphis and Red Location, Milwaukee and Eluxolweni, Berkeley and Oukasie, San Francisco and Mfengu, Seattle and Daliwe, Cleveland and Inanda, Denver and Duncan Village, Louisville and Kleinskool, Milwaukee and Potsdam, Phoenix and Peelton, and Chicago and Alexandra. The newsletter also mentions Dennis Goldberg, ANC (African National Congress), the Alexandra Civic Organization (ACO), Chicago-Alexandra Sister Community Project, Thandi Gcabashe, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Robert Price, Carol Thompson, Terri Harris, Awon Atuire, Alderman Reginald Meeks, Rita Harris, the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, Bob Hanson, Councilman Calvin Goode, Kirsten Spaulding, Marjorie Prince, Ted and Betty Homdrom, Rose Mburu, community leaders, the Democratic Front, Wanda White, the Community Workshop on Economic Development, the California Community on Economic Development Association, PLANACT, Sherrie Pugh, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dan Sandi, the South African National Civic Organization (SANCO), Nelson Mandela, Sister Community Project South Africa Program Director Myesha Jenkins, U.S. Senator Paul Simon, the U.S. Information Agency, Bophuthatswana, East London, Professor Kenneth Simmons, the University of California at Berkeley, the Duncan Village Residents Association, Mthetheleli Pobane, education reform, Chris Benner, forced removal, and micro-enterprise.

African Activist Archive

Sister Community Project News and Reports

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