,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. 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 variety of techniques and are developed
events to one placeonly. extensively. (v) The author often portrays
(vi) Events are limited and described the events of his novel in a variety of briefly, may
provide conflict in the short places.
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.”
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