February 2025

Sobhuza versus Zwide

By |2025-02-12T09:17:26+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Nguni apparel. Image credit BBC

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Crisis in Nguniland: Sobhuza versus Zwide

  • Zwide Kalanga (1758-1825) was the king of the Ndwandwe/Nxumalo nation circa 1805 to circa 1820
  • Around the time Zwide was king the Ndwandwe were a growing military power
  • Zidwe was an ambitious leader keen on expanding […]
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Common Killer diseases in the Tropics: Bilharzia

By |2025-02-12T09:30:10+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Bilharzia is a waterborne disease. Image credit lshtm.ac.uk

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Common Killer diseases in the Tropics: Bilharzia

  • Is also known as schistosomiasis.
  • It is another serious infection and wide spread in Africa and other tropical and sub-tropical regions.
  • The disease is caused by a flat worm that lives in various […]
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The Social Organization of the Ndebele State

By |2025-02-12T09:43:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ndebele Caste system

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Ndebele State:The Social Organization of the Ndebele State

  • The Ndebele state was organized in a caste system. A caste system is a system of class determined by birth meaning if you are born in a poor family you will also be poor
  • The […]
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Factors influencing farming: Physical or Environmental factors

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

Physical factors also affect agriculture. Image credit irinnews.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Physical or Environmental factors

Temperature

  • These are critical for plant growth because each plant or crop type requires a minimum growing temperature.
  • In temperate latitudes this is 6°C. Below this members of the grass family, including cereals, cannot […]
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Human Farm Inputs: Labour and Capital

By |2025-02-12T09:26:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Capital and Labour are important on farms. Image credit buzzsouthafrica.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farm Inputs:Farm Inputs: Labour and Capital

  • These fall under Human Inputs

Labour

  • This refers to the number of people involved in a production system, their skills or technical know-how as well as their production objectives.
  • In traditional farming systems, […]
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The Main Irrigation Schemes of Africa and Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:14:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Vaal Barrage dam in South Africa. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:The Main Irrigation Schemes of Africa and Zimbabwe

  • Almost every country in Africa has irrigation schemes of different sizes, most of them too small to note but the big ones are few due to the […]
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Major stages of Zimbabwean Colonization

By |2025-02-12T09:39:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A photograph of the Rudd Concession

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Stages of Zimbabwean Colonization

  • Moffat treaty 1888
  • Rudd Concession 1888
  • Royal Charter 1889
  • Formation of the BSAC 1890
  • Jameson’s Party to Lobengula 1890
  • The Pioneer Column 1890
  • The war of dispossession 1893-1894
  • The first Chimurenga 1896-1897

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Government Policy and Location of industries

By |2025-02-12T09:07:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hon. Patrick Chinamasa presenting the budget.

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

  • This factor affects both industrial growth and location in a national economy in a number of ways.
  • In terms of industrial growth, government can affect this through:
  • Fiscal policy – Fiscal policy […]
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Car assembling in Japan

By |2025-02-12T09:30:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Car Making and Assembling Japan. Image credit cnn.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Industrial studies: Car assembling in Japan

  • Japan has one of the largest and most prominent car industries in the world
  • The country has been in the top 3 car manufacturing countries by number of cars made since the […]
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Taxation in Rhodesia (1894-1969)

By |2025-02-12T08:56:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Africans had to pay a hut tax

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

  • Taxes were introduced by the colonial government to serve two purposes, that is, to force Africans to work for Europeans to earn money to pay taxes and to fund the government
  • Whites were not taxed even […]
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