NATIONAL
SENIOR CERTIFICATE
GRADE 12
SEPTEMBER 2022
HISTORY P2
ADDENDUM
This addendum consists of 14 pages.
, 2 HISTORY P2 (ADDENDUM) (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022)
QUESTION 1: HOW DID WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS CHALLENGE THE APARTHEID
GOVERNMENT DURING THE 1980s?
SOURCE 1A
This source below explains the reasons for the establishment of the End Conscription
Campaign (ECC) in 1983.
The End Conscription Campaign was established in 1983, after Black Sash decided in
July of that year to establish an organisation for conscientious objectors. The main aim of
the ECC was the broadening of the rights of conscientious (honourable) objectors and the
creation of a system of alternative military service without the element of punishment. The
ECC was formed as a coalition, spearheaded (led) by the existing Conscientious
Objectors Support Groups, consisting of human rights, religious, student and woman’s
organisations opposed to conscription and militarisation and committed to working for a
just peace in our land.
The ECC’s opposition to conscription is based on the fundamental belief that no person
can be forced against their will to take up arms and to take life. Because of the increasing
involvement of the South Africa Defence Force (SADF) in operations against South African
resistance organisations within and outside the country and in defending and upholding
(maintaining) the apartheid system in the mid-eighties, a growing number of young men
began to rebel against national service. Most of them fled from South Africa to avoid
military service, while a minority were jailed after refusing to undergo military training. The
ECC grew so rapidly that by the end of 1985 it had more than 4 000 members in seven
branches.
[From https://omalley .nelsonmandela.org>index. php>. Accessed on 9 November 2021.]
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SENIOR CERTIFICATE
GRADE 12
SEPTEMBER 2022
HISTORY P2
ADDENDUM
This addendum consists of 14 pages.
, 2 HISTORY P2 (ADDENDUM) (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022)
QUESTION 1: HOW DID WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS CHALLENGE THE APARTHEID
GOVERNMENT DURING THE 1980s?
SOURCE 1A
This source below explains the reasons for the establishment of the End Conscription
Campaign (ECC) in 1983.
The End Conscription Campaign was established in 1983, after Black Sash decided in
July of that year to establish an organisation for conscientious objectors. The main aim of
the ECC was the broadening of the rights of conscientious (honourable) objectors and the
creation of a system of alternative military service without the element of punishment. The
ECC was formed as a coalition, spearheaded (led) by the existing Conscientious
Objectors Support Groups, consisting of human rights, religious, student and woman’s
organisations opposed to conscription and militarisation and committed to working for a
just peace in our land.
The ECC’s opposition to conscription is based on the fundamental belief that no person
can be forced against their will to take up arms and to take life. Because of the increasing
involvement of the South Africa Defence Force (SADF) in operations against South African
resistance organisations within and outside the country and in defending and upholding
(maintaining) the apartheid system in the mid-eighties, a growing number of young men
began to rebel against national service. Most of them fled from South Africa to avoid
military service, while a minority were jailed after refusing to undergo military training. The
ECC grew so rapidly that by the end of 1985 it had more than 4 000 members in seven
branches.
[From https://omalley .nelsonmandela.org>index. php>. Accessed on 9 November 2021.]
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