Task 3: Reading Comprehension Term 1
Total: 60 marks 2 hours
Set by Mr. De Klerk
/60 % Level:
NAME: ______________________________CLASS:_____________ DATE:____________________
Instructions and information:
1. This task consists of:
• QUESTION 1 – COMPREHENSION (20)
• QUESTION 2 – VISUAL TEXT (10)
• QUESTION 3 – SUMMARY (10)
• LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND CONVENTIONS (20)
2. Read your questions carefully before answering.
3. Number your questions according to the system in the paper.
4. Write neatly and legibly.
5. Pay attention to spelling.
, QUESTION 1 – COMPREHENSION
TEXT A
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
RISE AND FALL OF THE STANDER
GANG
Saturday Star – 20 Oct 2018
◆ Between October 1983 and February 1984, the Stander Gang, comprising of André Charles Stander,
Patrick Lee Mccall, and Allan Heyl, were South Africa’s Most Wanted Men.
◆ In three years working alone, Stander netted R100 000 robbing banks in Durban.
◆ On January 4, 1980, he was arrested at Johannesburg Airport with R4 000, a balaclava, a revolver, a
false moustache and beard in his luggage.
◆ In May, he was sentenced to a total of 75 years behind bars on 15 charges of armed robbery.
◆ He was nicknamed the ‘gentleman robber’, a kind of modern-day Robin Hood.
◆ After his conviction, Stander was sent to Zonderwater maximum security prison near Cullinan. It was
here that he met Mccall and Heyl. Both men were bank robbers, and Mccall was also an expert car thief.
◆ Stander and Mccall escaped from custody in 1983. Two months later, they broke out Heyl.
◆ For the next four months, the Stander Gang, as the trio came to be known, were to be front-page
news.
◆ Between mid-November 1983 and mid-January 1984, the Stander Gang robbed 20 banks and stole
over R500 000. On January 19 alone, they netted R165 000 from three jobs!
◆ On January 27, 1984, Stander flew to Fort Lauderdale in the US, using a false passport. Three days
later, police pounced on Mccall who died in a hail of bullets.
◆ Stander made his own fatal mistake. On February 10, Stander was arrested by the Fort Lauderdale
police for driving an unlicensed vehicle – a Ford Mustang, which he had recently bought from a second-
hand car dealer named Anthony Tomasello. The car was impounded by the police and Stander, who
claimed to be an Australian author named Peter Harris, was photographed and released. That same
night, he broke into the police pound and stole the car back. The next morning, Stander took it back and
asked Tomasello to have it resprayed. Unfortunately for Stander, that very morning Tomasello had been
reading about the exploits of the Stander Gang in his local newspaper, the Sun Sentinel, just as ‘Peter
Harris’ walked into his office. He put two and two together. The moment Stander departed, Tomasello
got in touch with his lawyer, who advised him to contact the police. That night an elite tactical impact
team surrounded Stander’s apartment. At 10.30pm, Stander rode up on a bicycle. He was confronted by
Officer Michael van Stetina but attempted to escape. There was a brief struggle for Stetina’s shotgun,
and Stander was shot. He bled to death on the wet driveway to his apartment block while waiting for an
ambulance.
Courtesy of africacrime-mystery.co.za
1.1 Refer to paragraph 1:
How many months were the Stander gang on the Most Wanted list? (1)
1.2 Refer to paragraph 2:
Explain the usage of the word ‘netted’. (1)
1.3 Refer to paragraph 3 to 7:
1.3.1 Discuss, using your OWN words, what happened to Stander. (3)
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Total: 60 marks 2 hours
Set by Mr. De Klerk
/60 % Level:
NAME: ______________________________CLASS:_____________ DATE:____________________
Instructions and information:
1. This task consists of:
• QUESTION 1 – COMPREHENSION (20)
• QUESTION 2 – VISUAL TEXT (10)
• QUESTION 3 – SUMMARY (10)
• LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND CONVENTIONS (20)
2. Read your questions carefully before answering.
3. Number your questions according to the system in the paper.
4. Write neatly and legibly.
5. Pay attention to spelling.
, QUESTION 1 – COMPREHENSION
TEXT A
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
RISE AND FALL OF THE STANDER
GANG
Saturday Star – 20 Oct 2018
◆ Between October 1983 and February 1984, the Stander Gang, comprising of André Charles Stander,
Patrick Lee Mccall, and Allan Heyl, were South Africa’s Most Wanted Men.
◆ In three years working alone, Stander netted R100 000 robbing banks in Durban.
◆ On January 4, 1980, he was arrested at Johannesburg Airport with R4 000, a balaclava, a revolver, a
false moustache and beard in his luggage.
◆ In May, he was sentenced to a total of 75 years behind bars on 15 charges of armed robbery.
◆ He was nicknamed the ‘gentleman robber’, a kind of modern-day Robin Hood.
◆ After his conviction, Stander was sent to Zonderwater maximum security prison near Cullinan. It was
here that he met Mccall and Heyl. Both men were bank robbers, and Mccall was also an expert car thief.
◆ Stander and Mccall escaped from custody in 1983. Two months later, they broke out Heyl.
◆ For the next four months, the Stander Gang, as the trio came to be known, were to be front-page
news.
◆ Between mid-November 1983 and mid-January 1984, the Stander Gang robbed 20 banks and stole
over R500 000. On January 19 alone, they netted R165 000 from three jobs!
◆ On January 27, 1984, Stander flew to Fort Lauderdale in the US, using a false passport. Three days
later, police pounced on Mccall who died in a hail of bullets.
◆ Stander made his own fatal mistake. On February 10, Stander was arrested by the Fort Lauderdale
police for driving an unlicensed vehicle – a Ford Mustang, which he had recently bought from a second-
hand car dealer named Anthony Tomasello. The car was impounded by the police and Stander, who
claimed to be an Australian author named Peter Harris, was photographed and released. That same
night, he broke into the police pound and stole the car back. The next morning, Stander took it back and
asked Tomasello to have it resprayed. Unfortunately for Stander, that very morning Tomasello had been
reading about the exploits of the Stander Gang in his local newspaper, the Sun Sentinel, just as ‘Peter
Harris’ walked into his office. He put two and two together. The moment Stander departed, Tomasello
got in touch with his lawyer, who advised him to contact the police. That night an elite tactical impact
team surrounded Stander’s apartment. At 10.30pm, Stander rode up on a bicycle. He was confronted by
Officer Michael van Stetina but attempted to escape. There was a brief struggle for Stetina’s shotgun,
and Stander was shot. He bled to death on the wet driveway to his apartment block while waiting for an
ambulance.
Courtesy of africacrime-mystery.co.za
1.1 Refer to paragraph 1:
How many months were the Stander gang on the Most Wanted list? (1)
1.2 Refer to paragraph 2:
Explain the usage of the word ‘netted’. (1)
1.3 Refer to paragraph 3 to 7:
1.3.1 Discuss, using your OWN words, what happened to Stander. (3)
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