grade 5 history task 18 lesson presented by : miss ngema

Pitlochry Primary School

Grade 5 History Task 18

Lesson Presented by :

Miss Ngema

MS N NGEMA - PITLOCHRY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Instructions

1

Use exam pad.

2

Write your name and your grade.

3

Refer to your textbook or any other relevant sources of information.

4

Write neatly.


Introduction


The Provinces and their capital cities

A province is a large section of a country which has its own administration and government. There are nine provinces in South Africa, each has a capital city where its government meets. There are nine provinces in South Africa namely:

• KwaZulu Natal

• Gauteng

• Eastern Cape

• Western Cape

• Northern Cape

• North West

• Mpumalanga

• Free State

• Limpopo


Provinces and their capital cities

The table below illustrates all nine provinces and their capital cities.

PROVINCES CAPITAL CITIES

1. KwaZulu Natal Pietermaritzburg

2. Mpumalanga Mbombela

3. Gauteng Johannesburg

4. Limpopo Polokwane

5. North West Mahikeng

6. Eastern Cape Bisho

7. Western Cape Cape Town

8. Northern Cape Kimberley

9. Free State Bloemfontein


Every province is known for it’s heritage

What is heritage?

Heritage is something that is handed down from the past, for example the money left to a child in his parent’s will. Heritage can be tangible and intangible. Tangible heritage includes things we can see and touch, such as heritage sites, art, objects, people , plants and mountains. Intangible heritage includes things such as our family heritage, languages, music, religion, dance, praise poetry and festivals. South Africa has a very rich and diverse heritage that belongs to all South Africans and it includes both tangibles and intangibles. The different types of food we eat, the various languages we speak, the different ways of doing things, our different religions and different types of traditional clothes we wear, all form part our heritage in South Africa. We celebrate a heritage day in South Africa every year on the 24th of September. On this day, we perform different festivals, dress up for our different religions, eat our various foods, sing our songs, poetry in motion, do our dances and show off our art work.


Let us look at these different pictures, they show different celebrations of a heritage day and different foods that

people eat on a heritage day


Heritage sites also form part of our heritage in South Africa. Below are different heritage sites in various provinces.

Heritage Site Province

1. Makhonjwa mountains Mpumalanga

2. The Castle Western Cape

3. The Aloe, a healing plants Eastern Cape

4. Frances Baard Northern Cape

5. The Golden Rhino Limpopo

6. The Gariep River Free State

7. A very old skull at a heritage site Gauteng

8. San Rock Art KwaZulu Natal

9. Kaditshwene, a very old stone walled town North West


Heritage in sites of significance: Cradle of Humankind-Gauteng

This is the most important heritage site in South Africa located in Gauteng province at Sterkfontein. It was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999 and it occupies 47000 hectares and contains a complex of limestone caves. This site was self-proclaimed as the Cradle of Humankind.


The palaeontologists and the fossils

Fossils are parts of ancient animals and humans that are now hardened such as rock. Fossils from millions ago have been found all over the world. One of the richest fossil sites in the world is Sterkfontein, one of the sites of the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg in Gauteng Province. Palaeontologists are scientists who study fossils, they study fossils found at Sterkfontein and other sites at the Cradle of Humankind. Professor Ronald J. Clarke and his assistants, Stephen Motsumi and Nkwane Molefe, found a nearly complete skeleton of an early hominid in Sterkfontein caves. They nicknamed it “Little Foot”. A hominid is a being that walked upright and used tools, many hominid skulls and bones have been found in Cradle of Humankind. Professor Robert Broom found the skull of an adult hominid nicknamed “Mrs Ples”. The fossils of hominid skulls and bones show that hominids lived in the Sterkfontein Valley over 3 millions years ago. The city of Johannesburg is not even 200 years old. A lot of famous fossils were discovered in Sterkfontein and other sites. Professor Lee Berger found bones from two hominid skeletons at another site on the Cradle of Humankind, Malapa. This fossil was named Karabo.


Let us meet these palaeontologists who discovered these fossils.

• Picture number 1 shows Professor Robert Broom who found the skull of an adult hominid nicknamed “Mrs Ples ”.

• Picture number 2 shows Professor Ronald J. Clarke who found a nearly complete skeleton of an early hominid in the Sterkfontein nicknamed “ Little Foot”.

• Picture number 3 shows Professor Lee Berger who found bones from two hominid skeletons and one of them nicknamed “Karabo”.

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Learner’s activity

Scrambled provinces Capital City Name of the Province

luzukwa tanal

peac earnste

opolimp

engaugt

sternwe eapc

efer atste

wste nthor

rothnnre ecap

ngalaupmam

Icon of the province ANSWER Province

i)Kaditshwene, a very

old stone

A. Mpumalanga

ii)The castle A. KwaZulu Natal

iii) A very old skull at a

heritage site

A. North West Province

iv)The Golden Rhino A. Northern Cape

v)Makhonjwa

mountains

A. Free State

vi)The Aloe, a healing

pant

A. Limpopo

vii) The Gariep River A. Eastern Cape

viii) San Rock Art A. Western Cape

ix) The Castle A. Gauteng

1.In the table below, unscramble the letters in the table, write the name of the of province and write it’s capital city.

2. Define the following terms:

2.1.1Heritage: _____________________________________________

2.1.2Diverse: ______________________________________________

2.3 Government: __________________________________________

2.4 tangible: ______________________________________________

2.5 Fossils _______________________________________________

3.Match column A with column B


grade 5 history task 18 lesson presented by : miss ngema

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