February 2025

Market and Location of industries

By |2025-02-12T09:06:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Bread is perishable and therefore it’s industries are located close to the market.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Types of Industrial Location:Market and Location of industries

  • Some industries are market-based not because their products are heavier than the raw materials making them, but because they are perishable.
  • Examples are opaque beer and […]
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Forts established by the Pioneer Column and their modern names

By |2025-02-12T09:20:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A colonial image of Fort Victoria now Masvingo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Colonisation of Zimbabwe:Forts established by the Pioneer Column and their modern names

  • As the Pioneer Column marched into and through Zimbabwe they established forts
  • Most of these have turned into modern centers
  • The table below shows these forts […]
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Labour Issues in Rhodesia 1894-1969

By |2025-02-12T08:55:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Black railway workers during colonial times.

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

  • Labour was needed to support the colonialist economic activities such as mining, farming industrialization among others
  • Settlers wanted healthy and able-bodied labour which could be provided by Africans
  • The huge supply of readily […]
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Sea Ports in Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:16:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

The port at Cape Town South Africa. Image credit businessmediamags.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport:Ports in Africa

Siting of ports in Africa

  • The siting of a port is determined by the physical environment.
  • Deep estuaries or deep offshore waters are necessary otherwise where the continental shelf is shallow, a lot of […]
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Longitude,time and the International Date Line

By |2025-02-12T09:32:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Time zones of the world. Image credit icsm.gov.au

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport:Longitude,time and the International Date Line

  • Travelers witness a change in time as they fly for long distances.
  • The time difference in different countries is caused by the rotation of the Earth.
  • This refers to the earth spinning […]
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The Government System during the Federation

By |2025-02-12T09:04:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Federation’s Coat of Arms

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland:The Government System during the Federation

  • There were two departments of government, that is, the Territorial Governments and the Federal Government to separate the identities of the territories from that of the Federal State
  • Territorial Governments were […]
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Types of Natural Resources

By |2025-02-12T09:23:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Trees are a natural resource. Image credit Blogger.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Types of Natural Resources

  • Natural resources are defined as materials or substances occurring in nature which can be exploited for economic gain.
  • Examples are soil, water, mineral, forests and wild life which can be used to improve […]
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Early Peasant Struggles through Associations, Unions and Societies (1900-49)

By |2025-02-12T09:43:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Rhodesian Infantry in the 1900

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:  Early Peasant Struggles through Associations, Unions and Societies (1900-49)

Petitions

  • After the defeat and silencing of national movements in the late 1890s,
  • some leaders continued to gain their land back
  • Nyamanda, the oldest […]
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Oil in Nigeria:Benefits, drawbacks, problems of oil extraction

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

An oil spill in Nigeria. Image credit huffingtonpost.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Oil in Nigeria:Problems of oil extraction

The following are problem associated with oil extractions:

  • Hot humid equatorial climate is associated with high incidence of environmental diseases.
  • High temperatures reduce the capability of to work.
  • Slippery and unstable […]
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Second Chimurenga: Nyadzonya raid

By |2025-02-12T09:21:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A black member of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts wearing his uniform

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Nyadzonya raid

  • The Rhodesian Security Forces with the help of part-time soldiers organized a major counter-offensive attack on 2 May 1976
  • Rhodesian Selous Scouts on 9 August […]
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