February 2025

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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Transport Network analysis

By |2025-02-12T09:17:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Transport Network analysis

 

The transport network system of Uganda. 

  • A transport network is  a spatial pattern of transportation facilities in a given region
  • It shows the pattern of transportation facilities that cover a given area e.g. a country, region or continent
  • Various methods are used […]
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South Africa 1867 – 1910: The Mining Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:33:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ferreira’s Gold Mine Johannesburg South Africa

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: South Africa 1867 – 1910: The Mining Companies

  • The first settlers to acquire gold claims got more ores easier and were able to raise more capital for reinvestment
  • Later gold mining required much more technical and advanced machinery
  • Rhodes was […]
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The Federal Executive or Cabinet and Federal Civil Service

By |2025-02-12T09:05:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Parliament meeting in Zimbabwe image credit Newsday.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland:The Federal Executive or Cabinet and Federal Civil Service

  • The Federal government had a cabinet that co-ordinated and directed its movements
  • Initially there were 5 cabinet ministers which later increased to 7 by 1958
  • The […]
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Chimurenga II/ Umvukela II: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:23:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Chimurenga II/ Umvukela II

 Introduction

  • This topic seeks to evaluate early protest movements in Southern Rhodesia
  • It enumerates the list of grievances that Africans had against colonial rule
  • The social and economic lives of […]
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The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Welfare Associations

By |2025-02-12T09:44:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Black workers in Gwelo

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

  • Africans also protested through welfare associations
  • The welfare associations were set up to help those in need
  • They looked non-political on the surface but deep down they had political roots
  • An example […]
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Conservation of mineral resources

By |2025-02-12T09:01:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A pile of metal awaiting recycling. Image credit earth911.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Conservation of mineral resources

  • Conservation of resources is the ethical use and protection of valuable resources, such as trees, minerals, wildlife, water and others.
  • It focuses on maintaining the natural world in order to protect the […]
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