zimbabwe 1894-1969

Rhodesia Army marching to the Boer War with Salisbury(Harare) in background

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Economic and Social Developments in Southern Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) from 1894 – 1979

• This topic will look at:
• The resources used by the white settler in Zimbabwe
• The various methods used by colonizers to recruit labour
• Explain […]
  

Tobacco remains an important cash crop to this day.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: : Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Agriculture in Rhodesia

After failing to get the desired profits and discovering the second Rand in mining, the settlers turned to agriculture

• The European settlers did not immediately utilize the land they had acquired since […]
  

White family planting tobacco in Rhodesia 1958 at their family farm.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Land Apportionment Act (1931)

• After deliberation of the Morris Carter Commission in 1925, it was agreed that land in Zimbabwe be divided into three areas
• Whites got prime land which was 51% of the […]
  

African homestead in Rhodesia

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Effects of the Land Apportionment Act

• Africans lost their land, and inheritance from their ancestors
• It brewed hatred between Europeans and Africans which continued till the Second Chimurenga
• It divided the country into three farming areas
• Europeans began to occupy […]
  

Communal areas were made up of infertile soils.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: African Agriculture

• Africans failed to make headway in terms of agriculture
• African reserves became overpopulated and overgrazed
• An effort to try and resuscitate the African agriculture was started by a Christian Missionary called Emory D Alvord […]