What messages are being conveyed in the poster?
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Question 3.3.1 of History Grade 12 Paper 2, NSC Preparatory Examination (Eastern Cape DoE, September 2025). It tests the Term 3 ATP topic Globalisation Defining globalisation, the dominance of global capitalism, and emerging eco.
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Two messages conveyed in the poster are:
- Clothing and textile factories must be saved from closure.
- The plight of workers who lost their jobs must be highlighted and workers must be protected.
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Hammarsdale.
It was built up around textile factories, with Mpumalanga township housing the workers.
Trade liberalisation is the removal of restrictions on trade.
For clothing and textiles it meant cutting tariffs and duties so that imports could enter the country more cheaply.
Two reasons why the source is useful are:
- It shows the government's role, through the DTI, in reviving the sector with about R4 billion in loans and incentives, including a R2,2 billion production incentive fund.
- It gives results of that role: 63 000 jobs saved and 8 000 created, with a minister and an industry executive both confirming the improvement.
Two ways in which Source 3C supports Source 3D are:
- Source 3C shows COSATU protesting about job losses from factory closures, and Source 3D says the industry suffered job losses.
- Source 3C shows an outcry to save the clothing industry, and Source 3D shows that government intervention later helped to save it.
Hammarsdale was in its final stage of decline.
The loss of textile jobs was the last straw and there seemed no way for the town's economy to recover.
Two agreements signed by South Africa in 1994 were:
- 'Marrakech General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)'.
- 'World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement'.