February 2025

Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain

By |2025-02-12T09:13:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Steam train

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Industrial Revolution in Britain:Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain

  • The Agrarian revolution led to the accumulation of financial resources which were needed for the Industrialization
  • The new capital from India and West Indies was readily available for industrial investment
  • Many banks in Britain […]
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Commercial Crop Farming

By |2025-02-12T09:35:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Commercial Tobacco Farming. Image credit theconversation.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Commercial Crop Farming

  • Commercial farming involves the growing of crops and the rearing of animals on a large scale for sale of products.
  • Commercial farming is agribusiness with the farmer aiming to have the highest returns from […]
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Colonisation of Zimbabwe: The Royal Charter

By |2025-02-12T09:25:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Image credit youtube.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Royal Charter

  • After the Rudd Concession,
  • Rhodes went to seek a charter from the British Queen to expand his mission in Zimbabwe.
  • A charter is an official document from a Monarchy (Queen/King) granting […]
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Types of industry: Primary Industry

By |2025-02-12T09:04:09+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Farming is a primary Industry.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Types of industry: Primary Industry

  • These produce or extract raw materials from nature to be used by other economic sectors.
  • Examples include fishing, farming, forestry and mining.
  • Developing countries have traditionally been suppliers of raw materials to advanced countries.
  • This is one […]
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First Chimurenga: Results of the Ndebele-Shona Uprisings

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

The railway line reached Salisbury(Harare)

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Colonisation of Zimbabwe: Results of the Ndebele-Shona Uprisings

  • The defeat of the Ndebele and Shona led to the total colonization of Zimbabwe and the Europeans firmly settled
  • Many Shona chiefs were killed during the first Chimurenga
  • The whites replaced these chief […]
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The Land Tenure Act (1969)

By |2025-02-12T09:33:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sir Goddfrey Huggins/Lord Marlven.

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

  • This was a more rigid and segregationalist law
  • It replaced the Land Tenure Act of 1931
  • The aim of the law was to create different areas for each race
  • It increased the division between […]
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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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