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The major estates of Zimbabwe: Hippo Valley case study

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:40:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hippo Valley Estate. Image credit wordpress.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:The major estates of Zimbabwe: Hippo Valley case study

Hippo Valley estate is located in the S.E Lowveld of Zimbabwe.
Size-Large land of size 111 4555 ha leased to a company by government.
Ownership-Ownership is by Anglo-American Corporation […]

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British Officials Involved in the Occupation of Zimbabwe

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:33:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cecil John Rhodes

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:British Officials Involved in the Occupation of Zimbabwe

Cecil John Rhodes
Colonel Pennefather
Charles Rudd
Rockford Maguire
Francis Thomson
Frank Johnson
C Selous
Allan Wilson
John Smith Moffat

To access more topics go to the History Notes page.

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Raw Materials and Location of industries
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Raw Materials and Location of industries

Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes

Raw Materials and Location of industries

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:05:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

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

From this calculation, a number of situations may arise:
\text{Raw Materials Index (RMI)} =\dfrac{\text{weight of raw materials}}{\text{weight of finished product}}
The formula used is
Industrialists calculate what is called the raw material index (RM index) to determine how raw materials will affect the location […]

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The Jameson Raid of 1893

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:19:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Boer fighters during the Anglo-Boer War.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Colonisation of Zimbabwe:The Jameson Raid of 1893

The British wanted to enforce their rule on Transvaal , Boer colony
Their reasons for this were that they were complaining that Uitlanders (foreigners mostly British) were being ill-treated by the Boers
The […]

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Tourism Industry in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:45:57+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Troutbeck in Nyanga. Image credit hotel-r.net

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Tourism Industry in Zimbabwe

Tourism has been the world’s fastest growing industry due to a number of factors.
This growth has been taking place in both developed and developing countries although growth rates have been varying between countries.
The greatest […]

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Railways, ports and inland waterways

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:16:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A Ferry on Lake Malawi. Image credit seabreezes.co.im

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Railways, ports and inland waterways

Africa’s transport network is the least development in the world for various reason.
The continent has some of the world’s poorest nations with very low Gross Domestic Products (GDPs), Gross National Products […]

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Modern Developments in Transport: Air Transport

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:31:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Easy Jet provides budget flights. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport:Modern Developments in Transport: Air Transport

Development in this transport sector includes enlarging and modernizing airports and terminals.
There is also a strong drive to attract airlines from developed countries to fly to developing countries to boost tourism […]

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Road to the Federation

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:04:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sir Goddfrey Huggins/Lord Marlven.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Road to the Federation

From mid 1940s upwards, settlers began to like the idea of a union due to the economic and political reasons mentioned in the previous topics
Also Afrikaners (Boers) had started protesting so there […]

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Economic Developments during the Federation

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:12:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Kariba Dam was built during the Federation years

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Economic Developments during the Federation

The federal state attracted funding and capital for big investment programs such as the Kariba dam which was constructed by the Federation from 1955-1959
The dam wall construction […]

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