February 2025

The Jameson Raid of 1893

By |2025-02-12T09:19:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Boer fighters during the Anglo-Boer War.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Colonisation of Zimbabwe:The Jameson Raid of 1893

  • The British wanted to enforce their rule on Transvaal , Boer colony
  • Their reasons for this were that they were complaining that Uitlanders (foreigners mostly British) were being ill-treated by the Boers
  • The […]
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Education in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T08:57:02+02:00February 12th, 2025|O Level History Notes|

St Georges college in Harare. Image credit youtube.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Education

  • In 1907 the Native Education Ordinance was passed which facilitated the creation of boarding missionary schools for Africans
  • African were mainly educated on industrial education
  • Orderlies and agricultural demonstrators were the only ones trained whilst […]
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South Africa 1867 – 1910: Economic Effects of Mining and Minerals in South Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:33:32+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Early image of Johannesburg.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: South Africa 1867 – 1910: Effects of Mining

  • There was infrastructural development in South Africa, for example, railways, food industries and roads
  • Railways were built to link major towns such as Kimberly, Transvaal, Cape town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Johannesburg and Durban

    • […]

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Social Development in the Federation

By |2025-02-12T09:11:43+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe)

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Social Development

Education

  • The University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was opened in Salisbury in 1957 by the federal government
  • The university was multiracial as per the requirements of the partnership
  • It was a London University […]
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National Democratic Party (NDP)

By |2025-02-12T08:59:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Nkomo (left) meets Mandela

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:National Democratic Party (NDP)

  • When the ANC was banned Africans viewed this as imperialists did not want to end racial segregation
  • The bans were only temporal as other African nationalists educated in the diaspora rose, […]
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End of White Rule and Independence

By |2025-02-12T09:42:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Robert Mugabe the First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: End of White Rule and Independence

  • Although Africans had the most causalities in the war, it is important to note that whites were also killed or injured
  • Many […]
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Chapter 5: The Executive (President, Vice Presidents, Ministers and Cabinet)

By |2025-02-12T09:27:36+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Presidential Motorcade

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Chapter 5: The Executive (President, Vice Presidents, Ministers and Cabinet)

  • The Executive is the main branch of the government
  • The Executive has administrative duties including the formulating of policy
  • They also implement laws and this function is wide

Executive authority

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Mussolini’s Domestic Policy and Achievements

By |2025-02-12T09:39:36+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Mussolini giving a speech.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini: Mussolini’s Domestic Policy and Achievements

One of Mussolini’s major aim was economic self-sufficiency with policies like the battle for grain, the battle for babies and the battle of the LIRA.

Battle of Grain

  • Mussolini encourage […]
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Hitler Domestic Policy and Dictatorship

By |2025-02-12T09:04:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hitler’s Youth

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: Hitler Domestic Policy and Dictatorship

Social Policy

  • Jews were persecuted and numbering laws were passed
  • Hitler was anti-Semitism and hated the Jews intensely
  • Jews were excluded universities, government working and from working as a lawyer or doctor
  • Jews could […]
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Successes of the New Deal

By |2025-02-12T08:58:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The New Deal reduced unemployment

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939:Successes of the New Deal

  • It prevented a possible revolution as people had founded hope in the new government
  • It restored democracy in the USA as other countries turned to authoritarianism to deal with effects […]
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