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SEPTEMBER 2015
HISTORY P2
ADDENDUM
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History Grade 12 P2 Eastern Cape Mock 2015 QP (Eng)
Grade 12 History Paper 2 question paper from the Eastern Cape Mock Exam 2015 (English), 11 pages. Read online or download the free PDF.
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2 HISTORY P2 (ADDENDUM) (EC/SEPTEMBER 2015)
QUESTION 1: HOW DID THE PHILOSOPHY OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
INFLUENCE THE SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH IN THE 1970s?
SOURCE 1A
The following extract was written by Thenjiwe Mtintso. It discusses the meaning of
Black Consciousness in the 1970s.
Whatever we do in this country, be it on the economic, social or political level, it
has to be by black people, for black people, period. It doesn’t matter how well-
meaning white people may be … they can never deliver me from the hands of the
Nationalists … whatever they do; they must try to work within their own community
and concentrate on liberating their counterparts. I’ll be doing the same thing in the
black community.
[From: Every Step of the Way: The journey to Freedom in South Africa by M Morris]
SOURCE 1B
This is an extract of a speech by Khotso Seatlholo, president of the Soweto
Student Representative Council. It focuses on the reasons of the uprising.
“We have the full right to stand up erect and reject the whole system of apartheid.
We cannot accept it as our fathers did. We are not carbon copies of our fathers.
Where they failed, we will succeed. The mistakes they made will never be
repeated. They carried the struggle up to where they could. We are very grateful
to them. But now the struggle is ours. The ball of liberation is in our hands. The
black students will stand up fearlessly and take arms against a political system …
We shall rise up and destroy a political ideology that is designed to keep us in a
perpetual (continuous) state of oppression and subservience.”
[From: Making History deur J Pape et al]
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SOURCE 1C
This source explains the main causes for the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
The issue that caused massive discontent and made resentment boil over into the
1976 uprising was a decree issued by the Bantu Education Department. The
deputy minister Andries Treurnicht sent instructions to school boards, inspectors
and principals to the effect that Afrikaans should be put on an equal basis with
English and had to be used as a medium of instruction in all schools. These
instructions drew immediate negative reaction from various quarters of the
community. The first body to react was the Tswana School Board, which
comprised of school boards from Meadowlands, Dobsonville and other areas in
Soweto. The minutes of the meeting of the Tswana School Board held on 20
January 1976 read:
‘The circuit inspector told the board that the Secretary for Bantu Education has
stated that all direct taxes paid by the black population of South Africa are being
sent to the various homelands for educational purposes there. In urban areas the
education of a black child is being paid for by the white population, that is English
and Afrikaans speaking groups. Therefore the Secretary for the Bantu Education
has the responsibility of satisfying the English and Afrikaans speaking people.
Consequently, as the only way of satisfying both groups, the medium of
instruction in all schools shall be on a 50–50 basis … In future, if a school teach
through a medium not prescribed by the department for a particular subject,
examination question papers will only be set in the medium with no option of the
other language.’
[From: http//www.sahistory.org.za/pages/governance-projects/black consciousness/biko-frameset.hmt.
Accessed on August 2014.]
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SOURCE 1D
This photograph shows students from Soweto embarking on a march on 16 June
1976.
[From: Soweto ’76 by KA Hlongwana et al]
SOURCE 1E
This extract deals with a statement released by the banned ANC on the Soweto
Uprising that appeared in an underground ANC newssheet, Vukani – Awake, July
1976.
“Our youth understood that their protest would be met by massive police violence
but were not intimidated. They have won a great political victory – the Voster
government has been compelled to drop the use of Afrikaans in schools. More
important, they have demonstrated the power of the people and shown that mass
protest remains an important part of the liberation struggle.”
[From: In Search of History by J Bottaro et al]
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QUESTION 2: DID VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FIND
CLOSURE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THE TRUTH AND
RECONCILIATION COMMISSION (TRC)?
SOURCE 2A
This source is a poster that was developed by the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, 1995. It was an invitation to both victims and perpetrators to appear
before the TRC.
[From: Via Afrika History by S Grove et al]
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SOURCE 2B
This source focuses on the granting of amnesty to Jeffery Benzien, by the TRC
on 17 February 1999.
Former senior member of the SAP Anti-terrorist Unit, Jeffery Theodore Benzien
was today granted amnesty by the Amnesty Committee of the TRC for the killing
of popular ANC Cape Town activist, Ashley Kriel, who was gunned down at his
home in Athlone on 15 July 1987. He was also granted amnesty for the use of
his ‘favourite’ torture method, known as the ‘Wet Bag Method’ during the torture
and interrogation of a number of political activists, including leading ANC MP,
Tony Yengeni. Benzien bragged during his hearing saying that his method was
so effective that he invariably (always) got the desired results within in a matter of
thirty minutes. He was granted amnesty for the torture of Peter Jacobs on whom
he administered his ‘Wet Bag’ method and the electric shocks method,
continuously for more than 3 hours during interrogation. He was also granted
amnesty for the torture and assault of other activist such as Ashley Forbes,
Bongani Jonas, Nico Pedro and Gary Kruser.
[From: www.justice.gov.za/trc/n. Accessed on August 2014.]
SOURCE 2C
This photograph was taken in Cape Town and shows people protesting against
the granting of amnesty to Jeffery Benzien, by the TRC.
[From: ORYX Media Archives/ Gallo images/ Getty images]
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SOURCE 2D
The following extract by Judith Lewis Herman (American psychiatrist, researcher,
teacher, and author who has focused on discovering a better way for victims of
crimes to be allowed to interact with what she perceives as an ‘adversarial’ system
of crime and punishment in the U.S., describes the success of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission.
Under the leadership of its chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the TRC took as
its mission to foster the widest possible participation. Unlike truth commissions in
many other countries, which met behind closed doors, the TRC reached out to the
people. Commissioners travelled throughout the country, holding over 50 public
hearings and taking statements from over 20 000 survivors of political violence.
The hearings were broadcast daily on radio, and highlights were shown weekly on
national television …The results were unprecedented. Not only did victims testify
in great numbers, but, faced with the enormity of the accumulating evidence, many
perpetrators also broke their silence. The amnesty committee originally expected
to receive something on the order of 200 applications; by the time their deadline
arrived, they had received over 7 000. Detailed information provided by the
perpetrators allowed the TRC to form a coherent picture of organised death
squads and to solve a number of infamous political murders.
[From: The American Prospect, Volume 11 by JL Herman]
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8 HISTORY P2 (ADDENDUM) (EC/SEPTEMBER 2015)
QUESTION 3: WHAT IMPACT DID THE POLICIES OF THE
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ORGANISATIONS HAVE ON
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?
SOURCE 3A
This extract describes the role of the IMF, World Bank and WTO, in the process
of globalisation.
What do the Asian financial crisis, one billion people on the brink of starvation, 2,5
trillion in international debt, the decline of every major ecosystem on the planet
and sweatshops have in common? They are all results of a global economy
designed by the IMF, World Bank and the WTO which looks after the interest of
transnational corporations over the interests of all other aspects of life.
The IMF, World Bank and WTO work together in an iron triangle to carry out the
corporate plan of privatisation, deregulation and ‘free’ trade. Although the World
Bank and IMF were originally founded to be part of the United Nations, they have
always been controlled by bankers and economists from the United States and
Europe. While outwardly promoting economic growth, financial stability and
development, the World Bank and IMF have forced more than 60 countries to
open up their forest, minerals, fisheries, agricultural land, workforce and financial
markets to foreign investors. They ignore domestic needs such as food security,
universal education and health care, the needs of local communities and
domestic business, protections for workers, women, marginalised peoples, and
the limits on nature’s capacity to be exploited and polluted.
Countries are being forced to reorganise their economies to produce exports in
order to generate the hard currency required to pay off loans from irresponsible
lenders such as the World Bank and the IMF. Instead of growing food for local
consumption, countries are now exporting luxury crops during times of famine and
food shortages. Protection of indigenous people, workers and environment is
sacrificed to attract foreign investment.
[From: History for All by E Brink et al]
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SOURCE 3B
This source consists of two viewpoints on the World Trade Organisation.
VIEWPOINT 1: THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH BY RENATO
RUGGIERO, A WTO OFFICIAL, IN OTTAWA ON 26
OCTOBER 2000
The World Trade Organisation, and its predecessor, the GATT, has played an
important role in creating a more open and prosperous world. Since the GATT
was set up in 1948, world trade has soared 15-fold, to more than $7 000 billion
(45 billion rand) a year. This huge rise in living standards has allowed nearly
everyone to enjoy the luxuries that were previously enjoyed only by the few …
Even in poor countries, people live longer, eat better, have more access to clean
water than they did 50 years ago …
The WTO is a powerful force for good in the world … People do want global
rules. If the WTO did not exist, people would be crying out for a place where
government could negotiate rules that promote freer trade ... We do not lay down
law. We uphold the rule of law. The alternative is the law of the jungle, where
might makes right and the little guy doesn’t get a look in.
[From: Internet source: http//www/wto.org/English/news – e/spmm 30 – e htm. Accessed 24 Augustus 2014.]
VIEWPOINT 2: THIS EXTRACT (AUTHOR UNKNOWN) FOCUSES ON THE
WORK OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION.
Free trade is not working for the majority of the world. During the most recent
period of rapid growth in global trade and investment (1960 to 1998) inequality
worsened both internationally and within countries. The UN Development
Program reports that the richest 20% of the world’s population consume 86% of
the world’s resources while the poorest 80% consume just 14%. WTO rules have
hastened these trends by opening up countries to foreign investment, thereby
making it easier for production to go where the labour is cheapest and most easily
exploited and where environmental costs are low.
WTO policies have allowed dumping of heavy subsidised industrially produced
food into poor countries, thereby undermining local production and increasing
hunger.
[From: http://www.globalexchange.org/resources/wto/oppose. Accessed 24 August 2014.]
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SOURCE 3C
This cartoon deals with the effects that the policy of Structural Adjustment
Programmes (SAPs) on developing countries.
[From: In Search of History by J Bottaro et al]
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Visual sources and other historical evidence were taken from the following:
Bottaro, J. et al. 2007. In Search of History (Oxford University Press)
Brink. E. et al. 2007. History for All (Macmillan)
Herman, J.L. 2013. The American Prospect, Volume 11 (Vivlia Publishers)
Hlongwana, K.A. et.al. 2006. Soweto ’76 (Macmillan)
Internet source: http:///wto.org/English/news-e/spmm39-ehtm. Accessed August
2014.
Internet source: http//:hemi.nyu.edu. Accessed August 2014.
Internet source: www.justice.gov.za/trc/n. Accessed August 2014.
Internet source: http:/www.globalexchange.org/resources/wto/oppose
Morris, M. 2004. Every Step of the way: The journey to Freedom in South
Africa(Ministry of Education)
ORYX Media Archives/ Gallo images/ Getty images: Accessed August 2014
Pape, J. et al. 1998. Making History (Heinemann Publishers)
South African History Online: Accessed on August 2014.
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