The document includes SISTER STATE-PROVINCE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. AND THE PROVINCE OF THE EASTERN CAPE, R.S.A. The document says Ndumiso Ntshinga of the South African Embassy first suggested the idea of forming sister-state/province relationships as a means of deepening the formal connections between the United States and South Africa. Fonner antiapartheid activists could use this framework to help identify and secure state resources which could be of assistance to South Africa's reconstruction and development process. The document mentions the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Representative Byron Rushing, Mel King, Richard Clapp, FREESA (Fund for a Free...
The document includes SISTER STATE-PROVINCE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. AND THE PROVINCE OF THE EASTERN CAPE, R.S.A. The document says Ndumiso Ntshinga of the South African Embassy first suggested the idea of forming sister-state/province relationships as a means of deepening the formal connections between the United States and South Africa. Fonner antiapartheid activists could use this framework to help identify and secure state resources which could be of assistance to South Africa's reconstruction and development process. The document mentions the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Representative Byron Rushing, Mel King, Richard Clapp, FREESA (Fund for a Free South Africa), Margaret Burnham, Geoffrey Norman, Matri Wilson-Taylor, Joyce Williams-Mitchel, Janet Axelrod, twinning's, Eastern Cape Province, former homelands, Ciskei, Transkei, Governor William Weld, Premier Mhlaba, the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI), the Joy of Africa Choir, the All Saints Education Resource Trust, Dr. Wayne Dudley, Salem State University, Senator Dianne Wilkerson, South Africa Partners, Dr. Trudy Thomas, MEC (Member of Executive Committee), faculty and student university exchange programs, AIDS/HIV, anti-apartheid, the Eastern Cape Health Department, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
