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SUS1501 Assignment 3 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references ,... No prizes for guessing which one of the Crossroads Assessment questions wehave chosen to explore here: “60% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC. Significant amounts of thisis mined under appalling conditions often by child labourers.” My personalopinion on this statement is most closely described by: A. What’s cobalt got to do with to me? B. The DRC is a long way from where I live so I don’t really care. C. This is just a fact of global supply chains and necessary for globaleconomic growth, which is in everyone’s best interest. D. I wonder who is profiting out of this? E. It breaks my heart to see children exploited. This is morally wrong andmust not be allowed. Here's what you need to do in this assignment: INSTRUCTIONS: This is a different assignment to assessment 2 as it will involve multiplesubmissions . So please read these instructions carefully! Step 0: Do Assessment 1 If you haven't already done it, please go to the "AT A CROSSROAD"section and do Assessment 1 now. Assessment Thursday, 17 July 2025, 7:34 PM  13/08/2025, 23:04 Assessment https://mymodules.dtls.unisa.ac.za/mod/forum/view.php?id=/4 YOU MAY GET 0 (ZERO) FOR THIS ASSESSMENT IF YOU HAVE NOTSUBMITTED YOUR ASSESSMENT 1. Step 1: Set the scene To set the scene for this assessment, we want you to do a Google image searchusing the words " DRC cobalt mines child labour ". Y ou should see something like the image below. Take a bit of time and scanthrough the images. Upsetti ng isn't it? Step 2: Answer the following questions - COUNTS 60% OF MARKS 1. 1. Which is the most likely utilitarian option in the multiple choicequestion above? 2. Why do you say this? You MUST state your premises for concludingthis explicitly as we taught you in the section A DARN GOODARGUMENT . If you do not do this, you will fail this part of theassignment. ; 3. What do you feel about this option?; 4. Which option did you chose? Post the answer to these in the discussion forum below. Step 3: Comment on other student submissions - COUNTS 40% OF MARKS At this stage, it is important that you are not just posting your own answers. Thatdoesn't help anyone - it's just you being in your own head. To really make progressin this module you have to also get some idea of what is going on in everyoneelse's heads. And this means engaging meaningfully and respectfully with yourfellow students. So, now that the rest of the group submissions are visible, we want you to post: 1. 1. AT LEAST 3 separate responses to any postings of any otherstudent(s) in this forum 2. Each of these must be AT LEAST 100 words in length. 3. These must be in SEPARATE POSTINGS In these comments we are looking for evidence that youhave considered other people's arguments, responded to thesearguments in a constructive way, added to the conversation andpossibly challenged your own ideas or the ideas of a fellow student. Just remember the rules of engagement expla ined in the START HERE GROUND RULES section of this study guide.

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SUS1501
Assignment 3 Semester 1 2025
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Due Date: April 2025



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, “60% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC. Significant amounts of this
is mined under appalling conditions often by child labourers.” My personal
opinion on this statement is most closely described by:

A. What’s cobalt got to do with to me?
B. The DRC is a long way from where I live so I don’t really care.
C. This is just a fact of global supply chains and necessary for global
economic growth, which is in everyone’s best interest.
D. I wonder who is profiting out of this?
E. It breaks my heart to see children exploited. This is morally wrong
and must not be allowed.



Step 1: Set the scene




These images depict child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC), a harsh reality where young children work in hazardous conditions
to extract a mineral essential for modern technology. Cobalt is a key component
in rechargeable batteries used in smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles, yet


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