February 2025

Democratic Leadership style

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

Democracy means rule by the people. Image credit kalamu.com

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Democratic Leadership style

  • Is also known as participative leadership
  • Under this style the members of the team contribute to the decision making process
  • The leader asks for contribution from team members during the process of […]
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Religious Organization of the Mutapa State

By |2025-02-12T09:45:29+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Some people still practice the African Religion of the Mutapa state.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Mutapa Kingdom:Religious Organization of the Mutapa State

  • The Munhumutapa was the supreme leader and the religious leader of the Mutapa people.
  • He had the ultimate religious powers.
  • Evidence from oral tradition argues that the Munhumutapa […]
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The purpose of the Great Zimbabwe structures

By |2025-02-12T09:11:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Great Zimbabwe ruins from a distance. Image credit africazim-travel.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Great Zimbabwe state (Kingdom): The purpose of the Great Zimbabwe structures

  • The uses of the Great Zimbabwe structure has been the subject of much speculation
  • Some experts have tried to come up with a list of plausible uses […]
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International Migrations

By |2025-02-12T09:21:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zimbabweans caught attempting to cross into South Africa. Image credit photoshelter.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Migration: International Migrations

  • This is where people leave their home countries or continents and migrate to other countries.
  • Examples are whereby people migrate from Mozambique into Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe to Botswana and South Africa.
  • People […]
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Political Organisation of the Zulu State

By |2025-02-12T09:36:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu. Image credit ibtimes.co.uk

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Zulu State: Political Organisation of the Zulu State

  • The smallest political unit was the kraal or village and it was under the rule of a kraal head or umnumzane.
  • The kraal head dealt with disputes and quarrels
  • The kraal […]
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Farm Inputs: Land Ownership

By |2025-02-12T08:56:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A communal farmer. Image credit mg.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farm Inputs: Land Ownership

Land ownership or tenure

  • This mainly results from socio-economic and political as well as historical factors that prevail in an area.
  • The tenant or leasehold system of land tenure in one where a landlord leases or rents land to […]
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Problems caused by nomadism

By |2025-02-12T09:06:07+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Tuaregs of North Africa. Image credit thisfabtrek.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Subsistence farming: Problems caused by nomadism

  • The way of life led by the nomads creates a lot of problems to the environment, to themselves, to other people and to African governments.
  • These problems include:

Cattle diseases.

  • These spread […]
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The Berlin Conference

By |2025-02-12T09:34:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Otto von Bismarck. Image credit famouspeople.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Scramble and Partition of Africa:The Berlin Conference

  • The Berlin colonial conference took place from 1884-1885
  • This is not to be confused with the Congress of Berlin(1878) or the Postdam conference of 1945
  • It was called for by the German […]
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Cattle Ranching as a system

By |2025-02-12T09:20:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Grazing Cattle. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Cattle Ranching as a system

We are aware that some of the information in this topic is dated but we have included it because examiners still keep examining on it.

  • Cattle ranching , like any other farming activity, is […]
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The First Chimurenga

By |2025-02-12T09:44:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Nehanda hero of the First Chimurenga

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The First Chimurenga

Causes

  • The Ndebele and the Shona lost their independence after the Pioneer Column settled in Zimbabwe
  • The new settler did not recognize the political structures that were already existing in Zimbabwe
  • The Shona people were considered weak […]
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