ENG1514
ENG1514
JANUARY SUPPLEMENTARY
Year: 2023
, 2 ENG1514
Jan/Feb 2023
SECTION A: Integrated Content and Text-Based Questions
Read Text A and answer the questions set.
TEXT A
A woman ahead of her time: The Lesseyton moment
By Zubeida Jaffer, 6 April 2021
PARA.1 Charlotte Mannya Maxeke took the unusual step in 1902 to insist on the
participation of women in church and political meetings. She had graduated with a BSc
Degree in 1901 becoming the first indigenous South African women [sic] to achieve this.
When she returned home from Ohio in the USA, she found herself stuck at the Cape as the
country was plunged in white-on-white violence that became referred to as the Anglo-Boer
War.
PARA.2 Her plan was to travel to Ramakgopa Village to join her father and start
implementing her dream of educating the local people. Nearly eight years had passed since
she had last seen her family in 1894 and in that time her mother had passed away. So it
must have been with a heavy heart that she patiently waited at the Cape for the war to end.
The details of her life’s trajectory are carefully recorded in the book, Beauty of the Heart,
The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke.
PARA.3 At last in mid-1902, with the end of the war, Charlotte could finally make the journey
north to what today is Limpopo Province. En route she took her first active steps in
organised politics at home when she attended the annual meeting of the SA Native
Convention (SANC) or Ingqungqutela in Queenstown. This Cape-based organisation formed
in 1890 was the early manifestations of efforts to cut across tribal divides and form the
South African Native National Congress (SANNC) 20 years later.
PARA.4 She must have had some inkling that arriving at this meeting would cause
controversy. The place where they gathered was 10 km north of Queenstown known as
Lesseyton at the base of the Hengklip Mountain where the Tembu people lived. Church
members at the Lesseyton Methodist Church of South Africa are now gearing up to prepare
the site as part of the Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Heritage Trail. The church has initiated a
heritage project to restore the site and record the history of the Lesseyton Methodist
LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS 0618151315
ENG1514
JANUARY SUPPLEMENTARY
Year: 2023
, 2 ENG1514
Jan/Feb 2023
SECTION A: Integrated Content and Text-Based Questions
Read Text A and answer the questions set.
TEXT A
A woman ahead of her time: The Lesseyton moment
By Zubeida Jaffer, 6 April 2021
PARA.1 Charlotte Mannya Maxeke took the unusual step in 1902 to insist on the
participation of women in church and political meetings. She had graduated with a BSc
Degree in 1901 becoming the first indigenous South African women [sic] to achieve this.
When she returned home from Ohio in the USA, she found herself stuck at the Cape as the
country was plunged in white-on-white violence that became referred to as the Anglo-Boer
War.
PARA.2 Her plan was to travel to Ramakgopa Village to join her father and start
implementing her dream of educating the local people. Nearly eight years had passed since
she had last seen her family in 1894 and in that time her mother had passed away. So it
must have been with a heavy heart that she patiently waited at the Cape for the war to end.
The details of her life’s trajectory are carefully recorded in the book, Beauty of the Heart,
The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke.
PARA.3 At last in mid-1902, with the end of the war, Charlotte could finally make the journey
north to what today is Limpopo Province. En route she took her first active steps in
organised politics at home when she attended the annual meeting of the SA Native
Convention (SANC) or Ingqungqutela in Queenstown. This Cape-based organisation formed
in 1890 was the early manifestations of efforts to cut across tribal divides and form the
South African Native National Congress (SANNC) 20 years later.
PARA.4 She must have had some inkling that arriving at this meeting would cause
controversy. The place where they gathered was 10 km north of Queenstown known as
Lesseyton at the base of the Hengklip Mountain where the Tembu people lived. Church
members at the Lesseyton Methodist Church of South Africa are now gearing up to prepare
the site as part of the Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Heritage Trail. The church has initiated a
heritage project to restore the site and record the history of the Lesseyton Methodist
LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS 0618151315
