Background of Area | Project Overview | Community Meeting | The Way Forward | ALL MULTIMEDIA

Picket fence prisons’ aim was established in order to raise awareness of the need to create a greater sense of community in the aforementioned areas.  Every week we arranged to meet and discuss the individual specialisation projects which included:

•    A 16-page news magazine comprising news/feature articles which aimed to highlight individuals’ experiences of crime in the community.

•    A photo exhibition displaying various community members and the difference between their Grahamstown ‘dream’ and their reality.

•    Pamphlets and posters for marketing purposes which were distributed in the areas and also to authority figures in the wider Grahamstown community.

•    Two documentaries:
   o    One comprised the lives of two St. Peters’ nuns - how their lives have been affected by crime in the area and how it hinders their duty to help the community.
  o    The second documentary took a closer look at the role of the CPF and how the community can become more involved.

•    Two sound slides:
  o    One focused on the differences between the past and present realities in our areas.
   o    The other followed a member of the community down Beaufort Street, exploring the different lived realities of the ‘Mini UN’.

•    A PSA called ‘The Wall’ which showed the need to get to know your neighbour, mainly by removing all possible barriers (race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sex etc.)

Please see ALL MULTIMEDIA to view the above multimedia.

The Picket fence prisons project’s main problem was to persuade the middle class to speak out about issues in the area, mainly crime.

The project’s final task was to create a forum by way of a community meeting, where members of the community gathered to view our individual research and discuss issues raised.