History Grade 10 March Test| Memorandum

Question 1
1.1
1.1.1 1885 (1 x 2) 2
1.1.2 – Competition and a decrease in the diamond price
- Fewer people could afford to own mines
- Required expensive machinery/ equipment
- Growing of expenses Any TWO (2 x 2) 4
1.1.3 – Due to competition and decrease in the diamond price, claimholders started
to sell their claims to more successful diggers. (1x 3) 3
1.1.4 Kimberley (1 x1) 1
1.1.5 – Black population could not open their own mining companies as they could
not afford to buy the expensive equipment hence was many sold their claims
- Black population was unskilled labour which means even if they had
expensive equipment they might have had a barrier in term of using them
underground (2 x 2) 4
1.2
1.2.1 KwaZulu Natal/ Natal province (1 x 2) 2
1.2.2 Rhodes moved to Northern Cape and bought some claims, he soon built up
quite a fortune (1 x 2) 2
1.2.3 – He wanted the British to exploit even more natural resources in South
Africa
- Learner’s Opinion (1 x 3) 3
1.2.4 – He dreamt of British domination in South Africa
- He was a capitalist who wanted to make more money for himself (2 x 2) 4
1.3
1.3.1 – The shows how Johannesburg was like in the 1890 after the discovery of
Gold
- The picture also supports that stock exchange which was done in
Johannesburg (2 x 2) 4
1.3.2 – This picture serves as evidence that Johannesburg became more populated,
just like Kimberley
- It started to develop into an urban area. (2 x 2) 4
1.4
- The discovery of diamond in Kimberley in 1867 led to an increase in the population
of Kimberley
- in Witwatersrand, Johannesburg became more populated, it started to develop into
urban area
- People started to build houses, offices and shops. This meant that the building
industry developed.
- Transport developed, as more factory goods were being shipped from Britain to
South Africa to be sold to the mines
- Better roads were built to transport the goods and equipment from the ports at the
coast to the rands
- Railways lines meant that more people who wanted to work in the gold could now
get there by train. New towns around the station grew up
- Farmers sent their produce grain by train to the larger towns
Question 2
2.1
2.1.1 This relates to business where it is done with the aim of making a profit
2.1.2 This is whereby one country takes control of another country
2.1.3 An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are
controlled by private owners for profit
2.1.4 Diamonds that are recovered from deposits of sand, gravel or clay near
rivers
2.1.4 A system where the workers travel away from their homes for a long period of
time to work [09]