February 2025

The causes of the Anglo-Ndebele War/ First Matebele/War of Dispossession

By |2025-02-12T09:42:09+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Lobengula Khumalo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The causes of the Anglo-Ndebele War/ First Matebele/War of Dispossession

Causes

  • The need to control the Shona people led to the Anglo-Ndebele war as the settlers needed them as labourers in their mines and industries whilst the Ndebele considered Mashonaland as a raiding ground
  • Raiding […]
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Advantages of iron and steel industries

By |2025-02-12T09:14:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Steel Plant image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Iron and Steel Industry:Advantages of iron and steel industries

  • Many advantages accrue to a country as a result of establishing its own iron and steel works.

Industrial growth

  • Iron and steel works are themselves industries, so establishing more of these means industrial […]
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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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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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Health in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T09:18:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Bulawayo City Hospital. Image credit Tony Ward.

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

  • Health standards for the workers were very poor
  • Workers in mines could easily be injured or get killed in accidents
  • Mine workers were not given adequate protective clothing resulting in many work-related injuries
  • Africans also […]
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Political Effects of Gold and Diamonds discovery in South Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:33:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Joburg grew rapidly after the discovery of gold

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

  • The need to control diamond and gold mines led to conflict between the British an the Boer in the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-1881 and 1899-1902
  • South Africa was united in 1910 […]
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Ways in which developing countries can improve trade

By |2025-02-12T09:07:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Processed platinum fetches a higher price than raw platinum

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Trade:Ways in which developing countries can improve trade

Trade in developing countries such as Zimbabwe can be enhanced by:

  • Diversification of their economies, that is, by producing a variety of new value added manufactured goods.
  • Investing in human […]
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Exploitation of natural resources

By |2025-02-12T09:24:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Exploitation of natural resources, gold panning in Mozambique.Image credit nytimes.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Resource Exploitation

  • The exploitation of natural resources is the use of natural resources for economic growth, sometimes with a negative implication of accompanying environmental degradation.
  • It started to emerge on an industrial scale in the […]
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Communication in Business: Reports

By |2025-02-12T08:55:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Reports are an integral part of business. Image credit entrepreneur.com

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Leadership: Communication in Business: Reports

  • A report is an account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body
  • In […]
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Forestry: Deforestation

By |2025-02-12T09:18:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest. credit blog.conservation.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:World Deforestation

  • Deforestation is the cutting down of trees without replacing them.
  • The most important role forests play in sustaining people’s lives is being threatened by the rapid disappearance of the world’s forests.
  • In 2009, most of the […]
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