Question $1.$ Pr$$cis

Read the text WALKING AWAY FROM WAR provided below. In a single paragraph of no more than

$85$ words, write a pr$$cis of this text. Give a suitable heading other than the one provided for the

text. Indicate the number of words used in your pr$$cis$,$ in brackets below it$.$

WALKING AWAY FROM WAR

Twenty$-$four$-$year$-$old geographer Brandon Finn likes coffee, chilli, cities and running. In fact, he

loves running. He loves it so much that on January $12021,$ he will be tying his takkies for the start

of Expedition Imashi, a $10-$day, $400$km run from Johannesburg to Hattingspruit.

Apart from the sheer masochism, Brandon will be running alongside the train tracks and roads

between this city and this town for two other reasons. The first: to commemorate a lesser$-$known

event in South African history.

In $1899,$ at the start of the second South African war, $7000$ people $($made up of Zulu mine$-$ workers

and their families$)$ were unable to leave Johannesburg and return home because the trains had

been commandeered. Their only other option of getting home was by foot, and all $7000$ made this

journey home safely.

There is a plaque in their honour, near the gates of the University of the Witswatersrand, which

reads: $$The epic march of Zulu workers. Walking away from war.$$

$$Imashi$$ translates to $$march$$ in Zulu, and the space between the English and Zulu plaques will

serve as Brandon$$s starting point.

The second reason that Brandon has decided to run, is to raise both awareness and money for an

organisation he respects and admires. Having lived in Cape Town for five years, Brandon has seen

The Big Issue as $$a proactive and innovative way for unemployed, marginalised people to earn an

income, and gain greater socioeconomic mobility$.$

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