History Grade 9 NOV 2022

CAPRICORN SOUTH DISTRICT

SOCIAL SCIENCES: HISTORY

GRADE 8

2022 FINAL EXAMINATION

This question paper consists of 9 pages (including the cover page)

TIME: 1h30 MARKS: 30

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INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Answer ALL questions

2. Read questions carefully
3. Number your answers correctly
4. Write neatly and legibly
5. Follow instructions for each question carefully
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QUESTION 1: TURNING POINTS IN MODERN SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY

SINCE1948

1.1. Study Source 1A and answer the following questions

The Source below focuses on human rights in South Africa.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) sets out the basic rights that
should make it possible for everyone to live free and equal lives, and be treated with
dignity and respect, no matter who they are. Human rights are universal.
When the UDHR was accepted at the United Nation Organisation in (UNO), South
Africa was entering the most racist in its history. The National Party was in power,
and they put into practice a policy of racial discrimination, called apartheid. Black
South Africans were denied basic human rights. Apartheid laws ignored every one of
the rights recognised in the UDHR. The South African apartheid government did not
sign the UDHR, but they remained a member of UNO.

1.1.1. What is the name of the document drawn up by the UNO about human
rights? (1)

1.1.2. What do you think is meant by the statement ‘human rights are
universal’ ? (2)

1.1.3. List any TWO basic human rights that that you know. (2)

1.1.4. Explain why the apartheid government of South Africa did not sign the
UDHR? (2)
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QUESTION 2
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2.1. Read Source 2A and 2B and answer the questions that follow.
The Source below explains how the National party implemented some of the
main Apartheid laws. It shows how people were forcibly removed from Sophiatown.
When the areas were defined, anyone living in the ‘wrong’ area had to move, or else
was move by force. Very few white people had to move and they were usually
moved to better areas than where they had been living.
Sophiatown was destroyed under apartheid. The forced removal from Sophiatown
was part of the government’s apartheid plan to turn the residential and business
areas of cities and towns white. They did this by forcibly removing black South
Africans to ‘locations or township’, away from the white areas.
Residents of Sophiatown held regular meetings to try to co-ordinate resistance to the
forced removals. On February 1955, 2 000 heavily armed policemen arrived in
Sophiatown. They forcefully moved: the black families to Meadowlands, Soweto, the
‘coloured’ people to Eldorado Park, in the south of Johannesburg, the Indian
community to Lenasia and the Chinese people to central Johannesburg.

2.1.1. What law had been passed in 1950 which gave the government the power to
move people out of Sophiatown? (1)
2.1.2. According to the Source, why did the National Party want to destroy
Sophiatown? (2)
2.1.3. Name the areas in the source where the following groups were moved to:
(a) blacks (1)
(b) Indian (1)
2.1.4. Briefly explain the impact of apartheid laws on people’s lives. (2)
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2.2. Refer to Source 2B

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The photograph below shows armed police evicting the inhabitants of Sophiatown,
a suburb of Johannesburg in 1955.

[From: www.sahistory.org.za. Accessed on 16 October 2022]

2.2.1. Refer to Sources 2A and 2B. Explain how the evidence in Source 2B supports
the information in Source 2A regarding the forced removal of the people in
Sophiatown . (2 x 2) (4)
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QUESTION 3
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3.1. Read Source 3A and answer the following questions.

The Source below explains how the African National Congress and South African
Indian Congress organised defiance campaign against unjust lawman South Africa in
1952.
On 6 April 1952 while white South Africans celebrated the tercentenary of Jan van
Riebeeck's arrival at the Cape in 1652, the ANC and SAIC called on black South
Africans to observe the day as a "A National Day of Pledge and Prayer". After the
successes of 6 April the date for the start of the Defiance Campaign was set for 26
June 1952

The first group of volunteers including Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Dadoo, Moses
Kotane, J.B. Marks, David Bopape and Walter Sisulu defied apartheid laws in
Johannesburg and other major city centres.

In Port Elizabeth, 30 people entered a railway station through the "Europeans Only"
entrance and were arrested. Others were arrested for entering the European
sections of the post offices, sitting on benches marked for whites, or violating other
apartheid regulations All were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act
with promoting communism.

Although the campaign did not achieve the desired aim of overturning the apartheid
laws, it was successful in a number of other respects. The resistance won United
Nations recognition that the South African racial policy was an international issue
and a UN Commission was established to investigate the situation. During the
campaign more than 8 000 people went to jail for defying apartheid laws and
regulations and the ANC's membership rose by tens of thousands. These years were
crucial as the Defiance Campaign saw the movement of the ANC from moderation to
militancy. The campaign also demonstrated the potential power of African leadership
and its organisational skill and discipline. This period marked the beginning of non-
racial co-operation in the resistance to apartheid which would be furthered cemented
by the formation of the Congress Alliance in 1954 in the run up to the Congress of
the People
[ From : https://www.sa.history.org.za. Accessed on 17 0ctober 2022]

3.1.1. Explain the concept Defiance Campaign in the context of resistance to

apartheid laws. (2)
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3.1.2. Name any TWO first volunteers who defied the apartheid laws in
Johannesburg. (2)

3.1.3. Using the information in the source and your own knowledge explain why the
protestors deliberately broke the minor apartheid laws. (2)

3.1.4. How did the government react to the Defiance Campaign? (2)

3.1.5. In what ways would you say the Defiance Campaign was a success (2)
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QUESTION 4

4.1. Using the information and your own knowledge, write a paragraph of about
EIGHT lines (about 80 words) explaining the role played by women in the
liberation struggle in South Africa in 1956. [8]

QUESTION 5: TURNING POINTS IN SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY 1960, 1976 AND

1990

5.1. Study Source A below and answer the following questions

The Source below is an extract from the speech delivered by Nelson

Mandela in the Rivonia Trial on 20 April 1964.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I
have fought against white domination. I have fought democratic and free society in
which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal,
which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am
prepared to die.

5.1.2. Name the farm where Nelson Mandela was arrested. (1)

5.1.3. Identify, from the source any TWO things that Mandela fought for. (2x2=4)

5.1.4. Explain the usefulness of this source to a student researching the role played
by Mandela in the liberation struggle. (2 x 2) (4)
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QUESTION 6
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6.1. Study Source 6A and answer the following questions

The Source below explains the measures taken by the South African government to
control the unrest in the 1980’s
The government introduced very harsh measures to control the growing unrest.
Many people were placed in detention. This meant that they were put in prison
without trial. The government declared a state of emergency. The ANC- in-exile
called for the people to make the township ungovernable. The youth took streets,
protesting against local township councils and the presence of troops in the
townships.
Adapted from : Platinum Social Sciences Pg 236

6.1.1 Explain the term State of emergency in the context of the unrest that took place
in South Africa in the 1980s. (2)

6.1. 2. According to the source, explain why people were prepared to go such violent
extremes against apartheid? (2)

6.1.3. Give a reason, according to the source why the youth joined the protests (1)
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6.2. Study Source 7B and answer the following questions

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The Source below shows millions of South Africans standing in long queues for
hours waiting to cast their votes. The date 27 April 1994 was chosen as the day for
South Africa’s first democratic election

[From https://elections.thesouthafrican.com/south-africa-election-results-
1994/southafrican.com]

6.1. When was South Africa’s first election held? (1)

6.2. Use the information in all the sources and your own knowledge to explain how
the political leadership and commitment by De Klerk and Nelson Mandela paved
the way for the birth of a non-racial democratic South Africa in 1994? (4)
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SECTION B
QUESTION 7

ESSAY QUESTIONS

Answer ONE question in this section

7.1. Explain how the philosophy of the Black Consciousness led to Soweto
Uprising of 1976. (20)

OR

7.2. Explain how FW de Klerk ‘s decision to release Nelson Mandela led to the
establishment of a democratic South Africa. (20)

TOTAL = 75