February 2025

Commerce: Sole Trader

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

Sole Trader. Image credit geograph.org.uk Sole Trader. Image credit geograph.org.uk ZIMSEC O Level Commerce: Sole Trader Business

Sole Trader

Features

  • Is owned by one person who provides all the capital.
  • Their motive is to make profit.
  • Tends to be small in size.
  • Has few legal formalities.
  • Easy to form as they require little start up capital.
  • Controlled and […]
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Commerce:Debentures

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

Debenture certificate. Image credit catawiki.com Debenture certificate. Image credit catawiki.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Debentures

Debentures

  • Are loan capital or money borrowed from financial institutions and individuals.
  • Earn interest at a fixed rate.
  • Interest is paid whether or not a company has made profits.
  • Debentures are creditors to the company.
  • A safe form of investment.
  • May […]
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The Standards Association of Zimbabwe

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

Image credit businessdaily.co.zw Image credit businessdaily.co.zw ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: The Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ)

  • Adopts and adapts international standards of products, performance, safety and quality.
  • Prepares standards of products for Zimbabwean manufacturers.
  • Issues copies of standards specification to producers.
  • Tests products for quality.
  • Authorises companies to use the SAZ seal of approval.
  • Ensures that […]
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End products of photosynthesis and their fate

By |2025-02-12T09:44:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit arboday.org Image credit arboday.org ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: End products of photosynthesis and their fate

  • Green leaves manufacture starch or sugar during the photosynthesis process
  • Oxygen is also given out.
  • The oxygen passes out of the leaves by the process of diffusion.
  • It diffuses into the surrounding air.
  • There are microscopic […]
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Kupatsanura Zviito

By |2025-02-12T09:26:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit necessarywriters.com Image credit necessarywriters.com ZIMSEC O Level Shona Notes: Kupatsanura Zviito

  • Chiito chega chega chinogona kupatsanurwa tichibuditsa chidumbu chimwe nechimwe chakachiumba.
  • Zvidimbu izvi zvinonzi zvivakiso kana kuti zvivakazwi.
  • Chivakazwi chimwe nechichimwe chinenge chiine basa rachinoita pachiito chachinovanikwa.
  • Pabvunzo dzeShona panogona kuuya mubvunzo unenge uchida kuti iwe upatsanure chiito uchibuditsa zvivakazwi zvinenge zvakachiumba.
  • Unofanira […]
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Items traded the Mutapa State with the Portuguese

By |2025-02-12T09:03:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ivory was an important trade item. Image credit telegraph.co.uk Ivory was an important trade item. Image credit telegraph.co.uk ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Items traded the Mutapa State with the Portuguese

The Local People exchanged the following items for foreign goods

  • Gold
  • Ivory
  • Grain
  • Iron tools
  • Soapstone carvings
  • Copper

And in return […]

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The aims of missionaries in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:17:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Missionaries:The aims of missionaries in Zimbabwe

The missionaries who came to Zimbabwe had several aims

These included:

  • The main aim of spreading Christianity.
  • To promote legitimate trade between Europeans and Africans.
  • To campaign against slave trade and slavery in general.
  • To […]
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Trains and rail transport

By |2025-02-12T09:31:28+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

An NRZ train. Image credit sa-transport.co.za An NRZ train. Image credit sa-transport.co.za ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Trains and rail transport

Advantages

  • Is relatively cheap
  • Caries bulk goods such as coal and unprocessed ores
  • Carries large amounts of goods and
  • Carries large amounts of passengers
  • They are comfortable
  • Can be very fast
  • They are less prone to […]
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