NSSCO History 6138 case studies
NSSCO History 6138 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
NSSCO History 6138 is the Ordinary Level History syllabus of Namibia's senior secondary curriculum, normally taken in the final two years of secondary schooling and examined by written papers that mix source-based, structured and extended-response questions. It suits school candidates completing the NSSCO, private candidates registering through the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, and anyone needing a recognised school-leaving history qualification for further study, teacher training or public-sector entry. The NSSCO History 6138 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,664 words.
1Three sources, one sequence: weighing evidence for 1904–1908
Three sources sit on the table for a 600-word assessment. Source A is a 1985 interview with a Herero woman, then aged 84, recalling what her grandmother told her about leaving the Waterberg in August 1904: 'the shooting came after the cattle had already been taken.' Source B is a page from a German officer's diary dated 12 August 1904 describing 'a punitive expedition against stock thieves' and never mentioning women, children or deaths.
796 words, about 4 min2Rinderpest, credit and treaties: explaining the 1890s in one district
A learner is given a reconstructed file for a district meeting at Okahandja in March 1898. The Herero leader's councillors report that rinderpest has killed most of the herds since 1896.
746 words, about 4 min3The dog tax and the Bondelswarts: cause, pretext and the language of 'rebellion'
In 1922 the South African administration in South West Africa imposed a dog tax of one pound per dog on the Bondelswarts, a Nama community in the south. Administrators said the community kept several hundred dogs, which they used for hunting and to protect livestock; community leaders replied that the tax was set so high it could only be met by sending men to work for wages on settler farms, and that it was a way of forcing labour.
696 words, about 3 min4From Resolution 435 to 21 March 1990: explaining twelve years
In 1978 the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 435, providing for a ceasefire, UN-supervised elections and South African withdrawal from Namibia. Elections were finally held in November 1989 and independence came on 21 March 1990.
729 words, about 4 min5The 1915 campaign in German South West Africa: whose war was it?
In September 1914 Union of South Africa troops entered German South West Africa, after Britain asked Botha's government to seize the German radio stations and ports. The campaign stalled at Sandfontein, then resumed in 1915 under Botha with a force eventually numbering tens of thousands against a German Schutztruppe and reservists numbering only a few thousand.
697 words, about 3 min