February 2025

Factors influencing farming: Economic factors

By |2025-02-12T09:00:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Farming requires transport to move the produce to the market. Image credit farmradio.fm

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Economic factors

Transport

  • Types of transport available, time taken, and the cost of moving raw materials is one of the economic factors.
  • For perishable commodities for example milk, an efficient transport network is […]
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Farm Inputs: Sunshine,Temperature and Rainfall

By |2025-02-12T09:22:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Crops require good sunshine and a certain temperature in order to grow. Image credit mg.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming as a system:Farm Inputs: Sunshine and Temperature

Sunshine

  • It refers to cloud free days experienced in an area.
  • The number of days with sunshine decreases as latitude increases towards the poles.
  • Sunshine is […]
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Types of Irrigation

By |2025-02-12T09:42:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sprinkler irrigation are a form of modern irrigation. Image credit financialgazette.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Irrigation Farming:Types of Irrigation

  • irrigation may be divided into two groups namely:
  • traditional forms of irrigation and
  • modern ones.

Traditional forms of irrigation

  • Under traditional methods, there’s the water wheel moved by draught power […]
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Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:34:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cotton field. Farmer.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

Growing conditions and growing area

  • Zimbabwe is the largest producer of the crop in Africa south of the Sahara.
  • A bush crop grown in summer using dry land farming.
  • Rainfall at least 600 mm in the growing season.

    • […]

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Transport and Location of industries

By |2025-02-12T09:06:38+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Raw Materials and Finished Goods both incur transport costs

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

  • Industries locate where there are efficient, appropriate and cheap modes of transport to move their raw materials goods to markets and the labour force.
  • Generally there are two types of […]
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European powers and their African colonies

By |2025-02-12T09:20:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

European powers and their colonies

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Scramble and Partition of Africa: European powers and their African colonies

  • Britain had the most coonies in Africa.
  • Some African countries that were not colonised by the European powers
  • These are Liberia which was a protectorate of USA and
  • Ethiopia which […]
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Pieces of Discriminatory Laws Passed for the Benefit of the Whites in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T08:55:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sir Charles Coghlan Prime Minister of Rhodesia.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Pieces of Discriminatory Legislation Passed to the Benefit of the Whites

  • 1895 Law on Compulsory Identity Cards (Chitupa)
  • Registration of Labour Act of 1896
  • Private Location Act of 1908
  • African Labourers Act of 1911
  • Industrial Conciliation Act […]
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Air Transport in Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:16:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ethopian airways. Image credit financialgazette.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport:Air Transport in Africa

  • Africa’s air transport is poorly organised at both the international and regional levels for the movement of passenger and freight.
  • Whilst global passenger and freight traffic have been growing annually, Africa’s situation is one where volumes are […]
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South Africa 1867 – 1910: The Discovery of Gold

By |2025-02-12T09:32:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Early gold prospectors

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: South Africa 1867 – 1910: The Discovery of Gold

  • Gold was discovered in 1884 in the Witwatersrand area but was under utilized
  • It was discovered by Jan Gerrit Bantjes on a farm called Vogelstruisfontein in June 1884 and then by the Struben brothers […]
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The Composition of the Federal Government

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

Lord Llewellin 1940

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Composition of the Federal Government

The Governor and Executive

  • The Governor General was the Head of Government and he represented the British Queen
  • He was appointed by the Queen and received order from the her or the King directly
  • The Governor General worked […]
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