February 2025

The Pioneer Corps

By |2025-02-12T09:40:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hunter and Guide Courtney Selous

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Pioneer Corps

  • After obtaining the royal charter, Rhodes organized a party to occupy Zimbabwe
  • It was led by Frank Johnson and its guide was Fredrick Courtney Selous who was once a hunter in Zimbabwe
  • He sent out adverts worldwide for people […]
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The Course of the Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893-1894

By |2025-02-12T09:41:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Early settler soldiers who fought in the First Anglo-Ndebele War

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Course of the Anglo-Ndebele War

  • The war began with serious preparations from both sides
  • Lobengula recalled his army that he had sent to Barotseland
  • He positioned them strategically in areas covering Fort Salisbury, Victoria and Bechuanaland
  • […]

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The causes of the Anglo-Ndebele War/ First Matebele/War of Dispossession

By |2025-02-12T09:42:09+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Lobengula Khumalo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The causes of the Anglo-Ndebele War/ First Matebele/War of Dispossession

Causes

  • The need to control the Shona people led to the Anglo-Ndebele war as the settlers needed them as labourers in their mines and industries whilst the Ndebele considered Mashonaland as a raiding ground
  • Raiding […]
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Results of the Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893-94

By |2025-02-12T09:42:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Colonial propaganda drawing of the war

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Results of the Anglo-Ndebele War

  • The Ndebele were defeated and Lobengula fled from his capital after setting it on fire
  • Many Ndebele people were killed
  • The defeat of the Ndebele marked the colonization of the whole Zimbabwe
  • The Africans became divided […]
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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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