February 2025

Concession seekers who visited Matebeleland between 1870 and 1900 and the treaties they signed

By |2025-02-12T09:00:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Colonisation of Zimbabwe:Concession seekers who visited Matebeleland between 1870 and 1900 and the treaties they signed

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Importance and effects of foreign trade in the Mutapa state

By |2025-02-12T09:14:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ivory Trade was part of the Foreign Trade in Mutapa State. Image credit watchdog.co.ug

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Mutapa State (Kingdom): Importance and effects of foreign trade in the Mutapa state

  • Trade played an important role in the Mutapa State

Importance of Trade in the Mutapa Kingdom

  • The cloths and beads […]
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Settlements Established by the Ndebele on their way from Zululand

By |2025-02-12T09:41:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Ndebele State: Settlements Established by the Ndebele on their way from Zululand

  • These are the names that the settlements that the Ndebele established on their way from Zululand:
    1. Ekhupumuleni
    2. Emhlahlahlandhlela
    3. Egabeni
    4. Mosega
    5. Endinaneni
    6. Enkengwini
    7. Tshweyane

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Portuguese who owned Prazos

By |2025-02-12T08:59:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Slaves working on a Prazo.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Portuguese in the Zambezi Valley: Portuguese who owned Prazos

  • These are some the early Portuguese settlers who owned Prazos in the Mutapa Kingdom:
  • De Jesus Xavier
  • Jose De Araujo Lobo
  • Vicente Jose Ribeiro
  • Jose Do Rosario Andrade
  • Sebastiao Moraes Almeida
  • Joao Lobo

    • […]

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The Course of the Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893-1894

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Early settler soldiers who fought in the First Anglo-Ndebele War

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Course of the Anglo-Ndebele War

  • The war began with serious preparations from both sides
  • Lobengula recalled his army that he had sent to Barotseland
  • He positioned them strategically in areas covering Fort Salisbury, Victoria and Bechuanaland

    • […]

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Agriculture in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T09:32:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Tobacco remains an important cash crop to this day.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: : Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Agriculture in Rhodesia

After failing to get the desired profits and discovering the second Rand in mining, the settlers turned to agriculture

  • The European settlers did not immediately utilize the land they had acquired since […]
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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland:The Closer Union Movement

By |2025-02-12T09:37:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Lord Selbourne

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: The Closer Union Movement

  • In 1907 Lord Selbourne suggested that the federation reach as far as Lake Tanganyika with the aim of consolidating British Imperial Authority
  • The BSAC in 1915 suggested to unite Zimbabwe and Zambia so that […]
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The Collapse of the Federation

By |2025-02-12T09:23:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Dr Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia. Image credit newafricanmagazine.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: The Collapse of the Federation

  • The Federation was formally ended on 31 December 1963
  • One of the main reasons for its collapse was that it was formed without the native’s […]
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The Beginning of the Second Chimurenga War (1965-1971)

By |2025-02-12T09:00:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ian Smith and Harold Wilson aboard the HMS Tiger

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:  The Beginning of the War (1965-1971)

  • The war started in the late 1960s but was weak because Nationalist leaders such as Nkomo and Mugabe had been arrested in 1964 […]
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