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2015 June Exams Grade 12 History
Paper 1 – 2.5hrs
Section A - Source-based (do one s/b)
Origins of the Cold War
Angola
Civil Society Protest – Little Rock
Section B – Essays (do one essay)
Vietnam
Tanzania/Congo (omit)
BPM
Paper 2 – 2.5hrs
Section A - Source-based (do one s/b)
Civil resistance in SA 1970s – 1980s
TRC
Section B – Essays (do one essay)
SA and the Crisis of Apartheid
The Road to Democracy
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HISTORY GRADE 12
TABLE: PRESCRIBED AND EXAMINABLE CONTENT - PAPERS 1 AND 2
PRESCRIBED
EXAMINABLE CONTENT
TYPE OF QUESTIONS
CONTENT
1. Topic 1 : The Cold
PAPER 1
PAPER 2
War
The Origins of the Cold War
Source-based
questions
Extension of the Cold War – China
Essay
and / or Vietnam
Questions
2. Topic 2 :
Independent Africa
Comparative case studies: Congo
and Tanzania
Africa in the Cold War: Case Study –
Angola
Comparative
Essay
Questions
Source-based
questions
3. Topic 3 : The Civil
society protests:
1950s to 1970s
Overview of civil society protests:
Women’s liberation and feminist
movements in the 1960s and 1970s
Civil rights movements:
Case Study:
 The US Civil Rights Movement
 Black Power Movement
SBA or
Research
Assignment
Source-based
and Essay
questions
4. Topic 4 : Civil
Resistance in
South Africa 1970s
to 1980
The challenge of Black
Consciousness to the apartheid
state
The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s
Source-based
questions
5. Topic 5 : The
coming of
democracy and
coming to
terms with the past
The negotiated settlement and the
Government of National Unity
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission
Essay questions
Essay questions
Source-based
questions