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AFL1502EXAM
PACK 2023
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
,AFL1502 EXAM PACK 2023
LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWEWRS.
,Question 1
Briefly explain what is “Ubuntu” is and tell us what is it that you do in your culture that depicts “Ubuntu”
(10) SG Page 3
Ubuntu’s key concept is that is irrespective of race, colour or creed, ubuntu is about:
• peace
• working together
• forgiveness
• nation building
• respect
• Becoming a united people.
• The essence of being human.
• Speaks about humanness and gentleness.
• Embraces compassion and toughness
• Certain acts are attributes to the absence of ubuntu, e.g. violence, child and woman abuse, police
brutality,mob justice, etc
• Where there is ubuntu, there is life, peace, happiness, joy, education and general understanding
what is it that you do in your culture that depicts “Ubuntu”
• Ubuntu is to remain calm when receiving voluntary advice from someone and answer with something
like “Thank you for your opinion. I’ll think about it.” The goal is to be polite and not be defensive or
rude. It refers to the essence of being human.
• Caring for one another, without being bias, towards other human.
• To respect others and their values and to be generous and helpful to another’’.
• Ubuntu teaches us to forgive and forget. We all have tiffs amongst each other in everyday life, but the
golden key is to be able to forgive even when we do not receive an apology.
• To be generous and give the needy and share our wealth. To give others from what we have, even if
we have a real need for it.
• Teaches us not to be violent.
• It can be a simple good deed like smiling at someone and making their day or greeting someone in
their mother tongue language.
Question 2
Discuss the factors that led to the creation of our 11 official language (10)
• The medium of instruction was Afrikaans.
• Was inappropriate to African culture.
• Prevented Africans from attaining higher levels of education
• The change from apartheid to democracy brought about official recognition that South Africa is a
multilingual rather than a bilingual country.
• It had been assumed to be in the apartheid problem so they translated into a new multilingual
language policy, hence language democratization.
• The language policy gives us official language of eleven including Afrikaans and English.
• It Includes nine indigenous African language. (isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana, North Sotho,
Tshivenda, Xitsonga, siSwati and isiNdebele)
• The key objective of the new language policy is for understanding, redressing and the imbalances of
the past by promoting the previously marginalized language.
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• The objective in the language in education policy also allows parents to exercise the language choice
on behalf of the minor learner.
• Learners must choose their language and teaching upon admission to a school. Where a certain
language not available, learners can request the provincial education department to make provision
for instruction in the chosen language.
• School governing bodies must stipulate how the school will promote multilingualism through the use of
more than one language of learning and teaching or offering additional languages as fully fledged
subjects.
• Now in South Africa each person has the right to exercise their own culture and language of
preference, which was denied in the previous governments thanks to multilingualism South Africa can
grow to its full potential
Question 3
Explain the difference between a short story and a novel. Validate your answer by giving relevant
examples. Book 102 Pg 52 and Pg 42
Short story: under 7500 words Novel:consist of more than 40 000 words
(i) Is short, may be read in one sitting. (i) Is of considerable length.
(ii) Has only one plot. (ii) May have more than one plot.
(iii) Is too short to have chapters. (iii) Is divided into chapters.
(iv) Characterization is brief and to the point. (iv) Characterization is depicted through a
(v) The author usually limits his portrayal of events variety of techniques and are developed extensively.
to one placeonly. (v) The author often portrays the events of his novel
(vi) Events are limited and described briefly, may in a variety of places.
provide conflict in the short story. (vi) A series of events described in detail,
providing conflict in a novel.
1. Known as fictions:
The means the art form springs from
imagination.
Question 4
Explain with examples the relation between proverbs and metaphors: (10) Page 61 & pg36
Metaphor:
• A metaphor is a type of figure of speech in which two things are linked.
• It compares two objects by identifying one object and calling it with another name”. For example; “The
birds sing the flute.”
• It creates imaginative pictures that is intended to highlight.
Proverb:
A short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a
metaphorical, fixed, and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation.
• expresses the truth
• its wording is compact and forceful
• it is figurative
• it enjoys general acceptance in the culture group
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