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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The Federal Assembly and Supreme Court

By |2025-02-12T09:05:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: The Federal Assembly and Supreme Court

  • It was the Parliament or Legislative body
  • The Parliament was to consist of 35 MPs and 26 represented whites, that is, 14 from Southern Rhodesia, 8 from Northern Rhodesia and […]
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The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Welfare Associations

By |2025-02-12T09:44:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Black workers in Gwelo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:  Welfare Associations

  • Africans also protested through welfare associations
  • The welfare associations were set up to help those in need
  • They looked non-political on the surface but deep down they had political roots
  • An example […]
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The Kissinger Proposals

By |2025-02-12T09:25:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The American Career diplomat Henry Kissinger. Image credit Huffington Post

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: The Kissinger Proposals

  • Efforts to get a peaceful settlement were necessary after the war were now necessary after 1977
  • Nkomo and Smith had failed to reach a consensus […]
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Constitution of Zimbabwe: Chapter 4: Declaration of Rights

By |2025-02-12T09:15:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

 

Every human has certain inalienable rights.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Chapter 4: Declaration of Rights

  • This chapter lists all the rights a person is entitled to
  • Everyone has certain rights they acquire from the time they are born
  • The rights start with life itself which is […]
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Prisons and Correctional Service and its functions

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

Harare Remand Prison

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Prisons and Correctional Service and its functions

  • There is a Prisons and Correctional Service which is responsible for:
    1. The protection of society from criminals through the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted persons and others who are lawfully required to […]
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How Hitler got the Support of the People

By |2025-02-12T09:03:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Jews being harassed by police in Hitler’s Germany 193

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany:How Hitler got the Support of the People

  • The Weimer Republic had been weakened by problems it was facing and Hitler’s rise was made possible
  • The death of the Stressman in 1929 […]
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President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

By |2025-02-12T08:57:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

  • He defeated Hoover in the 1932 presidential elections and presented a ‘New Deal’
  • The new deal had the following aims:
    1. To provide employment for the unemployed
    2. To revive the […]
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The Portuguese who visited the Mutapa Kingdom/State

By |2025-02-12T09:23:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A drawing depicting the death of Da Silveira A drawing depicting the death of Da Silveira image credit Jesuit.org.sg ZIMSEC History O Level Notes: The Mutapa State: The Portuguese Explorers who visited the Mutapa Kingdom/State

  • These are the early European/Portuguese explorers that came to the Mutapa Kingdom:
  1. Father Gonçalo Da Silveira
  2. António Fernandes
  3. Francisco […]
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Reasons for the spread of Portuguese influence in the Zambezi valley

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

Swahili slave traders. Image credit blogspot.com Swahili slave traders. Image credit blogspot.com ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Portuguese in Zambezi Valley: Reasons for the spread of Portuguese influence in the Zambezi valley

  • To spread Christianity in the form of the Catholic faith to other countries and in the process,
  • Check the […]
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