February 2025

Types of Transport

By |2025-02-12T09:25:29+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

4th Street Bus Terminus Harare. Image credit Newsday.co.zw 4th Street Bus Terminus Harare. Image credit Newsday.co.zw ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Types of Transport

  • Traditional
    This refers to forms of transports that have been in use since antiquity including:
  • The human being (porter) i.e walking, running, carrying goods on their heads, shoulders […]
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Rural Settlements in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:43:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Rural Homestead. Image credit thezimbabwemail.com Rural Homestead. Image credit thezimbabwemail.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Settlements:Rural Settlements in Zimbabwe

  • Historic settlements were rural, as the populations were mainly dependent on hunting, fishing and gathering fruits.
  • Shelter was mostly basic and in the form of caves, tents made from animal skins, huts made out […]
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Sample surveys: collecting population data

By |2025-02-12T09:01:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zimstat officials often carry out sample surveys. Image credit voazimbabwe.com Zimstat officials often carry out sample surveys. Image credit voazimbabwe.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Population:Sample surveys: collecting population data

  • In a sample survey only part of the population is covered in the survey.
  • A survey is an exercise designed to obtain […]
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International Migrations

By |2025-02-12T09:21:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Migration: International Migrations

  • This is where people leave their home countries or continents and migrate to other countries.
  • Examples are whereby people migrate from Mozambique into Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe to Botswana and South Africa.
  • People […]
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Factors influencing farming: Social and Political factors

By |2025-02-12T09:02:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Social and Political factors

  • These can also include socio-cultural factors.
  • The social factors include issues of the traditions of people together with consumption behavior.
  • This may include capabilities of the farmer which are controlled by economic and […]
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Factors influencing farming: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:28:57+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Introduction

  • The output of a farm is affected by :
  • The physical conditions of the environment
  • This includes conditions like climate,
  • soil and biotic factors of insects,
  • pests and diseases.
  • Farming is also influenced […]
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Tobacco farming in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:32:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Tobacco farmers selling their produce at TSF.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Tobacco farming in Zimbabwe

Growing conditions and growing area

  • This accounts for 30 % of the country forex earnings and 12% of GDP.
  • It employs over 300 000 people.
  • Region 2 major growing area.
  • Rainfall 700-1000 mm […]
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Advantages of ZISCO’s current location

By |2025-02-12T09:14:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Iron and Steel Industry:Advantages of ZISCO’s current location

We are well aware that some information in this topic is outdated. It has been provided for exam preparation purposes.

  • The steel works known as Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) (then […]
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Pipeline Transport in Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:17:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Pipeline transport in Africa. Image credit thevillager.com.na

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Pipeline Transport in Africa

  • Whereas pipeline transport is very highly developed in advanced countries such as Germany and Canada and in oil-producing Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq, this mode of transport is very […]
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Informal Cross-border trade

By |2025-02-12T09:11:21+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cross border buses at RoadPort.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Trade: Informal Cross-border trade

  • COMESA defines informal cross-border trade (ICBT) as a form of trade that is unrecorded in official statistics, and is carried out by small businesses in the region.
  • Informal cross border traders are vendors who travel to neighbouring […]
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