Wattville

Wattville is a township south of Benoni in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1941, and by 1948, 400 houses were built on 34 hectares. After 1948, building stopped as it was threatened with destruction. This was because it was considered too close to a white town. However, building continued in 1951 and by 1955 about 2,000 new houses had been erected. The ANC president Oliver Tambo used to live here in the 1950s. He is also buried here. He lived in this township together with his wife Adelaide Tambo who continued to serve the community and the local Anglican congregation. Amongst her services within the community was to donate food parcel every year to the local senior citize until she met her untimely death in 2008. She was buried next to her late husband. An area was erected in this township in honour of the couple and it's called Tamboville with more 500 families still growing due influx to the township.

Wattville has a good weekend and night-life with pubs on almost every corner of the location. Others, namely "Moja Pub", "S3" and "Emabonweni" have been hosts to the best deejays to walk the streets of our country. "Uhuru" lounge has been the crowd favourite since the closure of "Scrapyard" due to renovations. Mafias like Karabo "Gazebo" Gosebo, Bongani "Raj-Bansi" Mahanjana, Bongani "Skhwamie-Leigh" Radebe and Tshepo "Krogo" Lebita are among the many icons to have been born in Wattville.

In 2001,the Department of Social Development (then) approved the establish a Development Centre in Wattville. The community of Wattville who have been consulted from the initiation about the Development Centre concept, saw it fit to name the Centre "Adelaide Tambo Development Centre."It was and still is to honour Dr. Adelaide Tambo's direct socio-econimic involvement in Wattville. The Adelaide Tambo Development Centre prides itself to: 1. have the first and only Accredited Computer Training Programme in Wattville. 2. train 20 unemployed women sewing and life skills, registered 10 of them into Sewing Cooperatives. 3. have assisted the registered co-operatives to obtain sewing equipment and be beneficiaries of the annual School Uniform Project (SUP) from the Department of Health and Social Development. The Development Centre Managers are as follows: 1. The late Mr. Vusumuzi Mpondo (2001 to 2004) 2. Mr. David Boshielo ( 2001 to 2005 as Project Manager) and ( 2005 to 2010 as Centre Manager). 3. Mr. Brian Padi (2011 to date as Centre Manager)