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SECTION B: DRAMA No.
Although the letter is well-written, Mingus shows himself to be a
QUESTION 3: SOPHIATOWN demanding person telling Princess not to be late.
The fact that he is a gangster; gangsters are known to be violent.
3.1 3.1.1 (a) B /Tobianskys wife He says he owns the town; he should be controlling and arrogant.
(b) E / shebeen queen He is too materialistic and therefore sometimes treats people as
(c) D / group of gangsters objects.
(d) C / cinema (4)
NOTE: For full marks, the response must be well-substantiated. A
3.1.2 (a) Oxymoron (1) candidate can score 1 or 2 marks for a response which is not well-
substantiated. The candidates interpretation must be grounded in
(b) Although a funeral is not a pleasant place to be, Mingus happens the drama. (3)
to see someone he likes whom he wants to be his girlfriend. (2)
AND
3.1.3 Charlie is Minguss sidekick. He follows Mingus wherever he goes
and does what Mingus tells him to do. (2)
3.2 3.2.1 B / irritated by what Charlie is doing (1)
3.1.4 Jakes is a writer and so Mingus wants a well written letter to impress
Princess. 3.2.2 It is illegal for her to stay there because she is white. / Segregation
Mingus himself is not a good writer. / Mingus cannot write. (2) laws forbid different races from living in the same house / area. (2)
3.1.5 (a) Tsotsitaal (1) 3.2.3 (a) Surprise / disbelief (1)
(b) It represents a mixture of races living together in Sophiatown. It (b) Ruth is white and Drum Magazine is for black people. Mingus
gives the people of Sophiatown a strong sense of a collective finds it surprising that Ruth reads that magazine. (1)
identity. It is a language of unity. (2)
3.2.4 (a) Jakes wants a Jewish girl to come and stay with them for
3.1.6 Open-ended. study purposes. (2)
Accept a relevant response which shows an understanding of the (b) Jakes wants promotion at work by writing about something
following points, among others: interesting.
He is tired of writing about boxing. (2)
Yes.
3.2.5 She comes from Yeoville. (1)
The letter is well written and addresses Princess in a loving manner.
Mingus is honest.
3.2.6 She is open-minded / curious. (1)
He has told Princess everything about himself.
He promises to take her to nice places. She reads a black peoples magazine which is something that other
He tells her that he goes for the best meaning he is a man of high people find strange. She comes to Sophiatown having read about
standards. the place. (1)
OR
3.2.7 It is an area where people own property permanently and
completely. The people do not lease their houses from the
government like the rest of the houses where black people live. (2)
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3.2.8 Accept a relevant response which shows an understanding of 3.3.6 Accept a relevant response which shows an understanding of the
the following viewpoints, among others: following viewpoints, among others:
The people of 65 Gerty Street allow Ruth to stay though she Princess comes from a slum.
is not allowed to do so by law. She does not have a family to turn to when things go wrong for
Ruth adjusts her standards of living to fit the life situation of her.
Sophiatown. She is not educated.
They then teach Ruth ways to survive in Sophiatown / and She is therefore dependent on Mingus who ill-treats her.
ways to speak in Sophiatown.
Not having anything in her life makes her accept being abused
Ruth teaches them about her culture, and she learns about by Mingus.
the culture of black people though their lives are complicated.
Only when she has a modelling job, is she able to leave Mingus.
NOTE: For full marks, the response must be well-substantiated. A NOTE: For full marks, the response must be well-substantiated. A
candidate can score 1 or 2marks for a response which is not candidate can score 1 or 2 marks for a response which is not well-
well-substantiated. The candidates interpretation must be substantiated. The candidates interpretation must be grounded in
grounded in the drama. (3) the drama. (3)
AND 3.3.7 Open-ended.
3.3 3.3.1 Mingus is angry because Princess left, and he does not know Accept a relevant response which shows and understanding of the following
where she is. He thinks Princess is unfaithful. (2) viewpoints, among others:
3.3.2 (a) Ruth is an outsider because she is white, and its easier Yes.
for her to criticise because she can always depend on her
Mingus has a right to claim his belongings if Princess is unruly.
family when things go wrong. (2)
Princess owes Mingus the decency to tell him when she goes somewhere and
not just dress up and leave.
(b) Ruth is educated and from a liberal area. She also has a
job. Mingus has treated her well by taking her to the best cinemas and spoil her
Princess is uneducated and has no one to take care of with gifts.
her and therefore depends on Mingus. (2) He only pampered her because she was his girlfriend and they were on good
terms.
3.3.3 Jakes is a journalist, so he watches peoples actions and writes Princess has no right to them if she has another boyfriend.
stories about them. He does not want to get involved; he must
always be objective. (2) OR
No.
3.3.4 Jakes should stand up / move away from Ruth. / look her Mingus has no right to take the clothes he gave to Princess.
straight in the eye. (2) Mingus is a bully.
The gifs / clothes he gave her were a token of his love.
NOTE: Accept other relevant responses. Mingus is disrespectful.
He cannot accept rejection and resorts to violence.
3.3.5 Jakes develops from being a mere observer into a person who He thinks it is enough to give Princess material things and thinks that she should
is part of making history. He starts writing about the forced be grateful to him for those things.
removals and in the end, he becomes emotionally involved. (2)
NOTE: For full marks, the response must be well-substantiated. A
candidate can score 1 or 2 marks for a response which is not well-
substantiated. The candidates interpretation must be grounded in
the drama. (3)
AND
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3.4 3.4.1 He is bitter because Sophiatown is no more. / Sophiatown has been OR
demolished and they have to leave. (2)
No.
3.4.2 (a) Metaphor (1) Ruth goes to live in Sophiatown despite knowing that the law does
not allow her to do so.
(b) Jakes hates what has happened to the community of This presents time for them to fall in love and pursue their
Sophiatown. They were forcefully removed, and they could relationship.
not do anything about it. (2) They stay in the same house.
Ruth confesses her love to Jakes but it would seem that Jakes is a
(c) The community have lost their homes/livelihoods and coward.
identities/lives, music/entertainment, jobs. (2) When Blacks are moved to Meadowlands, Ruth suggests that they
run away from South Africa to another country.
NOTE: Accept any TWO.
NOTE: For full marks, the response must be well-substantiated. A
3.4.3 The name Triomf is an Afrikaans word meaning triumph in English. candidate can score 1 or 2 marks for a response which is not well-
The destruction of Sophiatown was a loss to its community on the substantiated. The candidates interpretation must be grounded in
one hand. On the other hand, their loss meant victory to the white the drama. (3)
people whose suburb emerged from the destruction of Sophiatown./ [70]
The destruction of Sophiatown is called Triomf / victory. (2)
TOTAL SECTION B: 70
3.4.4 Jakes uses a metaphor comparing Sophiatown to cancer which is
life-threatening and how the Apartheid government feared it like a
cancer they had to fight and remove for them to live. (2)
3.4.5 (a) A South African journalist for Drum magazine. (1)
(b) He died in New York. (1)
3.4.6 Mamariti lost her property in Sophiatown. As a result she died of
heart failure. (2)
3.4.7 Open-ended.
Yes.
The Apartheid government enforced laws which stated that racial
groups were only allowed to live in particular residential areas.
Ruth arrives in Sophiatown to stay there though her stay with black
people is not allowed by the Segregation Act.
Jakes does not allow himself to fall in love with Ruth because of the
laws.
He does not want to get hurt.
In the end, blacks are forcefully removed out of Sophiatown to
Meadowlands as part of the Native Resettlement Act.
Ruth is white and cannot go to Meadowlands
This makes it more difficult for Ruth and Jakes to meet. They tried
but it became impossible.
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