Question 1
Choose the most CORRECT option from the following options.
The aim of this module is to …
1. understand the short-medium and long-term changes in South African society and
how this influences its future.
2. emphasise the history of interrelationships between the economy, politics, ideology
and the state.
3. understand how relationships in the local and the global social levels have shaped the
past and present circumstances of South Africa.
4. understand the concept of globalisation, among others things.
5. All of the above options.
Question 1 (5)
Question 1 is based on the discussion on pages 1 to 2 in the study guide. Notice that the stem
requires you to identify the most correct statement among the 5 options. This means careful
reading of all the options and understanding whether they make sense in relationship to what
you have studied in the guide. Options 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all correct in terms of what the aim of
the module is. Option 5 is the most correct option because it states that all of the above options
are true.
Question 2
Choose the CORRECT option from the following options.
According to the Study Guide (2006), Marais believes that …
1. most accounts of South Africa’s transition to democracy tend to neglect the
methodological and theoretical emphasis on politics and ideology.
2. most accounts of South Africa’s transition to democracy are accurate.
3. the liberal theorists reduce the ‘race-class debate’ to racism and apartheid following
the needs and dictates of capitalism.
4. the ‘race-class debate’ in South Africa describes the competing views between
radical and revisionists (neo-Marxists) on the one hand and functionalist liberal theorists
on the other hand.
5. only socio-economic (i.e. social and economic) factors can adequately and fully explain
Question 2 (4)
In Question 2, the “correct” choice is (4). All the other options are incorrect. If you read pages 4
to 5 of the study guide, you will see that section 1.2 lays out Marais’s views on an analysis of
South Africa’s political history. Accordingly, most accounts, according to Marais, tend to neglect
socio-economic dimensions of South Africa (and not the methodological and theoretical, which
are distractors, if you did not read the study guide). The third option is incorrect because it is the
radical theorists (or revisionists) who reduce the race-class debate to racism and apartheid
following the needs of capitalism. Option 5 is clearly incorrect given that not “only” socio-
economic factors can adequately and fully explain South Africa’s transition. The second last
paragraph on page five of the Study Guide leaves no doubt that option 4 is the correct answer
for this question.
Question 3
Choose the CORRECT option from the following options.
According to the Study Guide (2006):
Choose the most CORRECT option from the following options.
The aim of this module is to …
1. understand the short-medium and long-term changes in South African society and
how this influences its future.
2. emphasise the history of interrelationships between the economy, politics, ideology
and the state.
3. understand how relationships in the local and the global social levels have shaped the
past and present circumstances of South Africa.
4. understand the concept of globalisation, among others things.
5. All of the above options.
Question 1 (5)
Question 1 is based on the discussion on pages 1 to 2 in the study guide. Notice that the stem
requires you to identify the most correct statement among the 5 options. This means careful
reading of all the options and understanding whether they make sense in relationship to what
you have studied in the guide. Options 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all correct in terms of what the aim of
the module is. Option 5 is the most correct option because it states that all of the above options
are true.
Question 2
Choose the CORRECT option from the following options.
According to the Study Guide (2006), Marais believes that …
1. most accounts of South Africa’s transition to democracy tend to neglect the
methodological and theoretical emphasis on politics and ideology.
2. most accounts of South Africa’s transition to democracy are accurate.
3. the liberal theorists reduce the ‘race-class debate’ to racism and apartheid following
the needs and dictates of capitalism.
4. the ‘race-class debate’ in South Africa describes the competing views between
radical and revisionists (neo-Marxists) on the one hand and functionalist liberal theorists
on the other hand.
5. only socio-economic (i.e. social and economic) factors can adequately and fully explain
Question 2 (4)
In Question 2, the “correct” choice is (4). All the other options are incorrect. If you read pages 4
to 5 of the study guide, you will see that section 1.2 lays out Marais’s views on an analysis of
South Africa’s political history. Accordingly, most accounts, according to Marais, tend to neglect
socio-economic dimensions of South Africa (and not the methodological and theoretical, which
are distractors, if you did not read the study guide). The third option is incorrect because it is the
radical theorists (or revisionists) who reduce the race-class debate to racism and apartheid
following the needs of capitalism. Option 5 is clearly incorrect given that not “only” socio-
economic factors can adequately and fully explain South Africa’s transition. The second last
paragraph on page five of the Study Guide leaves no doubt that option 4 is the correct answer
for this question.
Question 3
Choose the CORRECT option from the following options.
According to the Study Guide (2006):
