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First Chimurenga: Why were the Ndebele and Shona Defeated?

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:15:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

First Chimurenga prisoners

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The First Chimurenga: Why were the Ndebele and Shona Defeated?

There were an estimate 188 injuries and 450 deaths among Europeans and 8000 deaths among Africans
They were defeated because they had inferior weapons
The whites had dynamites, maxim guns and powders whilst […]

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The Land Husbandry Act (1951)

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:33:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A rural village household in Zimbabwe

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: The Land Husbandry Act (1951)

Europeans saw that the Land Apportionment Act could not suppress the desire of Africans to own land
The land and environment were also deteriorating at a faster rate in natives reserves
So to […]

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Parastatals established during the Rhodesian era

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:09:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

GMB was one of the parastatals established during the Rhodesia era. Image credit newsday.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969:Parastatals established during the Rhodesian era

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Problems Encountered by the First Miners

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:19:32+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Diamond mine owners and their workers at Kimberly. Image credit wayfarersbookshop.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: South Africa 1867 – 1910: Problems Encountered by the First Miners

Diamonds were stolen by labourers through swallowing
The holes were usually dug deep and mines were joined making it difficult to identify and distinguish […]

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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland:The Closer Union Movement

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:37:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Lord Selbourne

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: The Closer Union Movement

In 1907 Lord Selbourne suggested that the federation reach as far as Lake Tanganyika with the aim of consolidating British Imperial Authority
The BSAC in 1915 suggested to unite Zimbabwe and Zambia so that […]

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General and Special Voter’s Rolls Qualifications

By Karen Mukungurutse|2025-02-12T09:10:07+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Africans(Natives) were not allowed to vote freely in Rhodesia

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland:General and Special Voter’s Rolls Qualifications

N.B

For general voters Ministers with a university degree of five years training a theological school or two years at school and three years service and Chiefs […]

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Resource Exploitation:Mining in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:28:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Chiadzwa Diamond Mine. Image credit mining.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Resource Exploitation, Mining in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has a wide mineral resource base which is exploited commercially.
Large scale mining is dominated by foreign transnational companies such as Anglo-American, Rio Tinto and Ashanti Gold Fields.
The majority of the local […]

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National Democratic Party (NDP)

By Karen Mukungurutse|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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