CALA COMPONENT B

CENTRE NAME: BRADLEY HIGH SCHOOL

LEARNING AREA: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

LEVEL: O LEVEL

SYLLABUS TOPIC: THEMES IN PROSE, POETRY AND DRAMA

SYLLABUS SUB TOPIC: MARRIAGE IN I WILL WAIT

CALA TITLE: WIFE INHERITANCE AND FORCED MARRIAGE

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

 Research and analysis

 Critical thinking
 Synthesis
 Presentation of research data
 Problem solving

BACKGROUND

Marriage is one of the oldest institutions in human society. As society has evolved
so has this august institution. There are some ways of getting are life partner that
have been outdated while others have been embraced. In I will wait, Msora brings
to trial the issue of wife inheritance and how it takes away the freedom of an
individual, rudo, to be more specific. One’s choice is overridden as her parents do
not give a listening ear to her. Her education is about to be affected but they do not
care since they fear that she might be difficult to control. Marriage is therefore
portrayed as the choice of the parents.

THE CALA

The CALA has three separate parts, Part A and Part B. You must respond to both
parts.
PART A

1. Identify and briefly explain any five ways (traditional and modern) used in
Zimbabwe to get a life partner. [5]

2. Identify and explain some problems faced in forced marriages. [4]

3. Discuss the four roles played by aunts in the process of their nieces’
marriages. [4]
4. Discuss briefly the process of marriage in your community, ie, how marriage
is handled. [2]

PART B

Write an essay entitled, “Marriage should be the choice of the one getting
married.” [10]
 CALA COMPONENT B MARKING SCHEME

CENTRE NAME: BRADLEY HIGH SCHOOL

LEARNING AREA: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

LEVEL: O LEVEL

SYLLABUS TOPIC: THEMES IN PROSE, POETRY AND DRAMA

SYLLABUS SUB TOPIC: MARRIAGE IN I WILL WAIT

CALA TITLE: WIFE INHERITANCE AND FORCED MARRIAGE

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

 Research and analysis

 Critical thinking
 Synthesis
 Presentation of research data
 Problem solving

BACKGROUND

Marriage is one of the oldest institutions in human society. As society has evolved
so has this august institution. There are some ways of getting are life partner that
have been outdated while others have been embraced. In I will wait, Msora brings
to trial the issue of wife inheritance and how it takes away the freedom of an
individual, rudo, to be more specific. One’s choice is overridden as her parents do
not give a listening ear to her. Her education is about to be affected but they do not
care since they fear that she might be difficult to control. Marriage is therefore
portrayed as the choice of the parents.

THE CALA

The CALA has three separate parts, Part A and Part B. You must respond to both
parts.
PART A

1. Identify and briefly explain any five ways (traditional and modern) used in
Zimbabwe to get a life partner. [10]

 Levirate
 Sororate
 Kutizira
 Kutiza mukumbo
 Kukumbira
 Kutema ugariri
 Musengabere, etc

Candidate has the freedom to use vernacular word for the type of marriage BUT
the explanation ought to be in English

2. Identify and explain some problems faced in forced marriages. [4]

 Poor communication
 Lack of trust
 Divorce
 Infidelity
 Domestic violence
 Suicide/murder
 Fights and squabbles, etc

3. Discuss the four roles played by aunts in the process of their nieces’
marriages. [4]

 Prepare the niece for marriage

 Go-between between the two families
 A confidante
 Educate the niece on marital issues
 Help solve niece’s marital problems
 4. Discuss briefly the process of marriage in your community, ie, how marriage
is handled. [2]

 Courtship
 Proposal
 Lobola negotiations
 Marriage

PART B

Write an essay entitled, “Marriage should be the choice of the one getting
married.” [10]

Essay mostly affirmative. Candidate to find reasons why marriage should be the
choice of the one getting married, not the choice of relatives
 CALA COMPONENT A MARKING SCHEME

CENTRE NAME: BRADLEY HIGH SCHOOL

LEARNING AREA: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

LEVEL: O LEVEL

SYLLABUS TOPIC: THEMES IN PROSE, POETRY AND DRAMA

SYLLABUS SUB TOPIC: GENDER EQUITY IN I WILL WAIT

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

 Research and analysis

 Critical thinking
 Synthesis
 Presentation of research data
 Problem solving

BACKGROUND

Women in society face a number of challenges. It is through the works of

playwrights such as Bertha Msora that the plight of women is brought to light.

THE CALA

The CALA has three separate parts, Part A, Part B and Part C. You must respond
to all parts.

PART A

5. Identify and briefly explain five challenges that women are facing in the
play, I will wait. [5]
 Forced marriage
 Early marriage
 Abuse (verbal, physical, emotional, sexual…)
 Denied right to education
 Women’s voice stifled, etc
 6. Identify the root causes, the reasons behind the challenges that the women
are facing in the play. [5]
 Culture and tradition
 Patriarchy
 Lack of education
 Superstition
 Disunity among women, etc

PART B

Carry out an interview on women’s contemporary challenges in order to see if

women’s still face the same challenges that they faced about two decades ago. In
the interview the candidates ought to interview males and females the same
questions. The candidate must also probe for solutions to the challenges, both from
a male point of view and a female point of war. [10]

 Data can be presented raw or processed

PART C

Using research notes, write a speech to be delivered at a women’s empowerment

conference. The speech must touch on women’s contemporary challenges, root
causes and ways of alleviating the challenges. [10]

 Challenges (any 4 from the research notes and from Part A.

 Root causes (refer to part B)
 Solutions
- Right to education
- Attending conferences like this one
- Distinguish superstition from facts
- Push for gender equality in all spheres eg, in business and at work
- Push for women’s independence
- Unity among women, etc