Please note: The grade 12 section is currently under construction as all information is being updated to support the new National Curriculum Statement. We will be adding a new lesson to this section weekly. Please click on the feedback icon on the top menu if you have anything to contribute to this section.


Topics:

1. What was the impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s?

  1. USSR/USA and the cold war – creating spheres of interest

  2. What was the role of China?

  3. Areas and forms of conflict: Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, Middle East.

  4. What role did the United Nations (UN) and other multi-lateral organisations such as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) play in attempting to mediate conflict?

2. How was uhuru realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s?

  1. An introduction to this section of the curriculumWhat were the ideas that influenced the independent states?

  2. What types of states were set up?

  3. What were the possibilities and constraints?

  4. What was the impact of internal and external factors on Africa during this time?

3. What forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s up to 1990?

  1. 1960s: civil rights, disarmament, student movements, peace movements, Black Power movement, women’s movements

  2. 1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

  3. Apartheid South Africa and Eastern Europe in the 1980s

4. What was the impact of the collapse of the USSR in 1989?

  1. On South Africa

  2. On Africa: reflection and re-imagining the nation in the 1990s – a case study from Central,  West or North Africa

  3. On the dominance of the USA

5. How did South Africa emerge as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s?

  1. The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s

  2. The collapse of apartheid in South Africa – coming together of internal and external pressures

  3. How the crises were managed – conflict, compromise, negotiation, settlement,  elections; (under construction) - link to old curriculum lesson

  4. The Government of National Unity and the making of the new Constitution;

  5. Dealing with the past and facing the future

  6. New identities and the construction of heritage.

 

Please note that the section originally in the curriculum on globalisation is not being examined in 2008, as the Department of Education decided the new curriculum is too long, especially in the light of the fact that is brand new for both teachers and learners.