And she said again: “Sukey, my darling, listen now! If I marry old Jan Redlinghuis he will let the water into my father’s furrow, and the lands of Zeekoegatt will be saved. I am going to do it, and God will help me.”
I cried to her: “Marta! Old Jan Redlinghuis is a sinful man, going at times a little mad in his head. God must help you before you marry him. Afterwards it will be too late.”
And Marta said: “Sukey, if I do right, right will come of it, and it is right for me to save the lands of my father. Think now, Sukey, my darling! There is not one of us that is without sin in the world and old Jan Redlinghuis is not always mad. Who am I to judge Jan Redlinghuis? And can I then let my father be driven like a poor- white to Platkops dorp?” And she drew me down on to the pillow beside her, and took me into her arms, and I cried there until far into the night.
The next day I went alone across the river to old Jan Redlinghuis’s farm. No one knew that I went, or what it was in my heart to do.  

1.                       
   1. Ghamka ✓
   2. Platkops ✓
   3.  Sukey ✓
   4.  Burgert de Jager ✓ (4)
2.  Burgert bonded some of his lands to Jan Redlinghuis. He cannot repay Jan, who, in turn, demands to marry Marta. If Marta refuses to marry Jan her father will lose his water rights. ✓✓ (2)
3. She wants to help her father/save the farm./ Her marriage to Jan will give her father access to the much-needed water. ✓✓
   OR
   She wants to spare her father the humiliation of poverty/being treated like a poor white. ✓✓ (2)
4. D ✓ (1)
5. Yes, he is mad because he kills Marta by humiliating her so much. ✓✓ (2)
6. They love each other dearly./They care for each other’s well-being. ✓
   AND
   Examples: Sukey is willing to take Marta’s place with Jan./She often visits Marta./They share everything./Sukey nurses Marta when she is dying./Marta calls Sukey “darling”./Marta held Sukey in her arms./ Sukey cried in Marta’s arms. ✓ (2)
7. She is selfless and will do anything for her father. ✓
   She is compassionate towards her sister. ✓
   She is not judgemental. ✓
   She is willing to accept her fate. ✓
   She is obedient. ✓ (2)
8.            
   1. She goes to ask Jan to marry her instead of Marta. ✓✓ (2)
   2. Sisterly love/love for her sister/ sacrifice. ✓ (1)
9. Marta was foolish to sacrifice herself like that because marrying Jan ended up killing her. ✓✓
   OR
   Marta was very brave to sacrifice herself by marrying Jan because she saved her father’s lands so he didn’t have to live in poverty. ✓✓ (2) [20]

We buried Marta in my mother’s grave at Zeekoegatt ... And still they could not find Jan Redlinghuis. Six days they looked for him, and at last they found his body in the mountains. God knows what madness had driven old Jan Redlinghuis to the mountains when his wife lay dying, but there it was they found him, and at Bitterwater he was buried.
That night my father came to me and said: “It is true what you said to me, Sukey. It is blood that I have led on my lands to water them, and this night will I close the furrow that I built from the Ghamka river. God forgive me, I will do it.”
It was in my heart to say to him: “The blood is already so deep in the lands that nothing we can do will now wash it out.” But I did not say this. I do not know how it was, but there came before me the still, sad face of my sister, Marta, and it was as if she herself answered for me.
“Do now as it seems right to you,” I said to my father. “Who am I that I should judge you?”

Answers 

1. She was a very gentle/peace-loving/sensitive person. ✓ (1)
2. False. She died of a broken heart./She died of a heart condition. ✓✓ (2)
3. Marta had died. ✓
   OR
   He had disappeared. ✓ (1)
4. He is feeling guilty. ✓
   He knows that he is responsible for Marta’s illness. ✓
   He probably wants to commit suicide. ✓
   He does not want to be present when Marta dies. ✓ (2)
5.                  
   1. Metaphor ✓(1)
   2. The fight for water rights has caused the death of Marta (and his wife). ✓✓ (2)
6. He changes from a greedy/selfish/cruel man to one who is sorry for his mistakes/actions. ✓✓
   OR
   He changes from a greedy/selfish/cruel man to one who wants to be a better/kinder person. ✓✓ (2)
7. “Who am I that I should judge you?” ✓
   OR
   “Do now as it seems right to you.” ✓ (1)
8. Her father Burgert and husband Jan are to blame for her death. ✓
   Burgert sold her to him knowing he was cruel, and Jan humiliated her so much it killed her. ✓✓
   OR
   Marta is responsible for her own death because she chose to marry Jan, even though it was clear that he was mad. ✓✓✓                    (3) [15]