February 2025

Mining Monopoly and its Effects in South Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:19:43+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Workers for the De Beers company

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: South Africa 1867 – 1910: Mining Monopoly and its Effects

  • The Wernher-Beit provided the capital to purchase all necessary claims
  • Its agent locally was Cecil John Rhodes who had been attracted by the adventures of mining in Africa
  • The capital […]
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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Hilton Young Commission

By |2025-02-12T09:38:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Africa Unity Square during the Federation

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: The Hilton Young Commission

  • This commission was headed by Sir Hilton Young
  • This commission recommended that the amalgamation be done between Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and it excluded central African countries
  • It also suggested a […]
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Export Processing Zones

By |2025-02-12T09:11:05+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Export Processing Zone at Beitbridge

Ways of improving Zimbabwe’s export potential

  • One way of improving foreign trade was to introduce the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).
  • This is held annually in Bulawayo as a showcase for Zimbabwe’s products.
  • Zimbabwean companies also participate in trade fairs organized by other countries for example Zambia, […]
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Importance of Mining to the economy of Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:37:26+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Gold. Image credit indianewsonweb.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Resource Exploitation, Importance of mining

Growth of industries

  • Mining helps industries to grow by providing raw materials to industries
  • Many industries obtain their raw materials from the mining sector.
  • For example, building and construction industries get some of their raw materials from […]
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National Democratic Party (NDP)

By |2025-02-12T08:59:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Nkomo (left) meets Mandela

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:National Democratic Party (NDP)

  • When the ANC was banned Africans viewed this as imperialists did not want to end racial segregation
  • The bans were only temporal as other African nationalists educated in the diaspora rose, […]
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Zimbabwe’s forests: Mountain forest and grassland

By |2025-02-12T09:20:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Bananas and other crops have replaced natural vegetation in some areas. Image credit zadt.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Zimbabwe’s forests: Mountain forest and grassland

  • This is found in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe.
  • Temperature are generally below 20°C while rainfall is over 1 500 mm.
  • The altitude is generally above 1 […]
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World forest resources:Tropical forests

By |2025-02-12T09:40:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

An aerial view of a tropical rainforest. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:World forest resources:Tropical forests

  • The world’s forests can be divided into three broad classes.
  • These are tropical, temperate deciduous forests and coniferous forests.

Tropical forests

  • These are lowland and low latitude luxuriant forests.
  • They comprise tropical rain forests […]
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Types of Forests: Deciduous temperate forests

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

Deciduous temperate forest. Image credit thinglink.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources : Deciduous temperate forests

  • These are also known as temperate deciduous forests or temperate broad-leaf forests.
  • They are dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year.
  • They are found in areas with warm, moist summers and mild winters

    • […]

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Natural Resources: Water quality

By |2025-02-12T09:25:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Water Quality is important. Image credit goinggreenrecyclingnigeria.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Water: Water quality

The quality of water can be improved by:

  • Improving water treatment techniques.
  • Improving sanitation at household level.
  • Treating sewage before discharging it in streams and rivers.
  • Recycling industrial waste.
  • Use of bio-degradable chemicals in the […]
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Fish processing and marketing

By |2025-02-12T09:35:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sun dried Kapenta. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing: Fish processing and marketing

  • Subsistence and commercial fishers employ more or less the same processing methods.
  • The high tropical temperatures mean that fish go bad very quickly after being landed from the lakes rivers and swamps.
  • Small […]
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