February 2025

Constitution of Zimbabwe: Rights

By |2025-02-12T09:14:32+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Every human has rights

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Rights

The Protection of the Right to Life

  • No one shall be intentionally and unlawfully killed
  • It is only lawful to kill a person in certain circumstances which include when carrying out a death sentence, when defending others […]
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Constitution of Zimbabwe: Freedoms

By |2025-02-12T09:28:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

People demonstrating in Harare

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Freedoms

Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

  • No person may be subjected to physical or psychological torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Freedom from slavery or servitude

  • No person may be […]
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Problems faced by the Weimer Republic

By |2025-02-12T09:02:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Pictures showing the hyperinflation in the Weimer Republic

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: Problems faced by the Weimer Republic

  • Dissatisfaction of the Versailles treaty
  • Too many political parties
  • Reparations that were too high
  • Weak government caused by the existence of many political parties in the […]
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The Anschluss March 1938 (The Invasion of Austria)

By |2025-02-12T09:05:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hitler arriving into Austria

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: The Anschluss March 1938 (The Invasion of Austria)

  • Germany and Austria had been forbidden from forming a union by the Versailles treaty
  • Hitler however felt that he wanted to incorporate his homeland into Germany as he […]
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Items traded the Mutapa State with the Portuguese

By |2025-02-12T09:03:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ivory was an important trade item. Image credit telegraph.co.uk Ivory was an important trade item. Image credit telegraph.co.uk ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Items traded the Mutapa State with the Portuguese

The Local People exchanged the following items for foreign goods

  • Gold
  • Ivory
  • Grain
  • Iron tools
  • Soapstone carvings
  • Copper

And in return […]

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Missionaries who worked for the London Missionary Society

By |2025-02-12T09:21:09+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: Missionaries: Missionaries who worked for the London Missionary Society

The following missionaries who worked for the London Missionary Society ( Now part of the Council for World Mission) operated in Zimbabwe:

  • Robert Moffat
  • John Smith Moffat
  • Charles Helm
  • William Sykes
  • David […]
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Features of the early Iron Age

By |2025-02-12T08:58:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Traditional iron smelting. Image credit heritagedaily.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Early Societies (Late Stone Age – Early Iron Age): Features of the early Iron Age

  • The early Iron Age succeeded the late Stone Age.
  • Tools and weapons made in the Early Iron Age were made from iron and wood
  • This is […]
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Causes of Mfecane/Difaqane

By |2025-02-12T09:16:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zulu soldiers at a village kraal. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Crisis in Nguniland: The Mfecane

  • Rapid population growth resulted on competition for land which was needed for agricultural, grazing and residential purposes
  • This led to over-cultivation of soils and later soil erosion
  • Bigger and powerful states like the […]
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