Wattville is a township south of Benoni on the east Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1941 and by 1948 400 houses was built on 34ha. After 1948 building stopped and it was threatened with destruction it was because it was considered to close to a white town but building continued in 1951 and by 1955 about 2000 new houses had been erected. In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated white-only. Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of... Benoni is a town in the South African province of Gauteng. ... The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. ... Categories: South Africa stubs | Provinces of South Africa | Gauteng Province ... See also: 1940 in South Africa, other events of 1941, 1942 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... See also: 1947 in South Africa, other events of 1948, 1949 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... See also: 1950 in South Africa, other events of 1951, 1952 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... See also: 1954 in South Africa, other events of 1955, 1956 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ...
Wattville was the oldest surviving township on the East Rand and was close to the white towns of Benoni, Boksburg, and Brakpan (Figure 2).
Wattville was therefore noticeable for the absence of organizational forms such as street committees, but area committees had been able to include all those interested in participation.
Wattville was not caught up in insurrectionary politics of the period in which many street committees were developed for defence.
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