The content is heavy. How is it handled?

Honestly and factually, as the curriculum requires. We do not soften the harm and we do not sensationalise it either. The emphasis falls on cause, consequence and the people who lived through it — not on graphic detail.

Why does the year start with Mapungubwe?

Because it corrects the context. Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe show that there were prosperous, organised states with international trade in Southern Africa long before any European settlement.

My child asks why the same event is told differently.

That is exactly the question the subject wants. For one group the Great Trek was a search for freedom; for another it was the loss of land. Both accounts are part of the history, and a child needs to know both.

Are these the same questions as in our PDF papers?

No. These are separate, original questions covering the same CAPS content.

Grade 7 · 21 topics · 562 questions

Grade 7 History tests and exam questions

Grade 7 History exam practice tests

Free Grade 7 History tests for South African learners, written from real CAPS papers. Every test runs in the browser, needs no sign-up and shows an explanation with each answer, so a child can practise alone and still learn from a wrong choice. There are 21 topics and 562 questions within Social Sciences, and the numbers change each time, which makes these useful for revision as well as a first run. Grade 7 History exam papers and memoranda in PDF are on the way.

Grade 7 history covers some of the heaviest content in the primary school: the transatlantic slave trade, the colonisation of the Cape and the conflict on the eastern frontier. It is not easy work, and it should not be.

The year begins somewhere else, though: at Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Southern Africa had rich, organised kingdoms trading gold and ivory as far as India and China, centuries before 1652. That fact changes the whole frame in which a child understands the rest of the year.

African kingdoms, the slave trade and sources

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The Cape, the British takeover and the frontier

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Mixed Grade 7 tests

Mixed Grade 7 History questions

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Grade 7 History tests and exam questions

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African kingdoms, the slave trade and sources

The Cape, the British takeover and the frontier

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Mixed Grade 7 tests

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