Heritage Studies Paper 2 June 2025

1. Athe machinery used to print the newspapers and magazines people buy.
2. Bthe channels through which information is stored and passed to a large audience.
3. Cthe group of journalists and editors employed by a newspaper or a broadcasting house.
4. Dthe government department that licenses newspapers and radio stations.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ait advertises the goods and services that local businesses are selling
2. Bit carries the school lessons broadcast during the school terms
3. Cit lets them follow current affairs in their own country and abroad
4. Dit exposes them to violent and immoral content that shapes behaviour

1. Aby carrying business training and advertising the goods young people make
2. Bby reporting the failure of small businesses so the young avoid them
3. Cby limiting business news to the companies quoted on the stock exchange
4. Dby broadcasting entertainment that keeps the young occupied after school

1. Aan impairment which, with the barriers a person meets, limits full participation.
2. Bthe refusal of a person to take part in the day to day affairs of their own community.
3. Ca shortage of skills that keeps a person out of paid employment.
4. Dan illness that a person suffers from for a short period of time.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Apaying them a monthly allowance in place of employment
2. Bbuilding separate settlements where they can live among themselves
3. Cexcusing them from the community meetings held in their wards
4. Drequiring public buildings and transport to be usable by everyone

1. Aasking the local authority to exempt them from paying council rates
2. Bsupplying wheelchairs and training families in home based care
3. Cmoving them from their villages into the nearest urban centre
4. Dsurveying how many of them live in each district of the country

1. AMbuya Nehanda, the medium whose remains were never recovered
2. BYvonne Vera, the novelist and gallery director from Bulawayo
3. CSally Mugabe, who was accorded national heroine status in 1992
4. DQueen Lozikeyi Dlodlo, a senior wife of King Lobengula

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe country's mineral deposits had been exhausted by then
2. Bthe government had closed the rural schools built after 1980
3. Cmost of the best farming land was still held by a few large farmers
4. Dblack Zimbabweans were still barred from attending the universities

1. Aforeign investors, who bought the farms at the market price
2. Bthe courts, which ordered that the farms be occupied at once
3. Ccommercial farmers, who surrendered their title deeds willingly
4. Dwar veterans, who organised and led the occupations of the farms

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Athe drift of ocean currents along the eastern coast of Africa
2. Bthe eruption of volcanoes in other parts of the world
3. Cthe clearing of large areas of woodland for firewood and fields
4. Dthe tilting of the earth on its axis as the seasons change

1. Aimporting more second hand vehicles so that public transport is eased
2. Bexpanding coal fired power stations to meet the growing demand for power
3. Crunning afforestation programmes and enforcing laws against reckless tree cutting
4. Drelocating families away from the low lying areas that flood during heavy rains each year

Answer this when you sit the paper.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Ait set aside a season of the year in which no hunting at all was permitted
2. Bit forbade a family from killing or eating the animal that is its totem
3. Cit required every hunter to obtain a permit from the chief's court
4. Dit limited hunting to the men who had been initiated into the clan

1. Athe Land Apportionment Act, passed by the settler government in 1930
2. Bthe Communal Land Act, passed after independence in 1982 by Parliament
3. Cthe Land Acquisition Act, passed by Parliament in 1992
4. Dthe Water Act, which governed the use of rivers and dams

1. Aresettling families on land acquired from large commercial farms.
2. Bselling communal land to companies for commercial farming.
3. Crestoring the reserves that were created under the Land Apportionment Act.
4. Dfencing the communal areas off as private game reserves.

1. Apotter, who shaped and fired clay into cooking and storage vessels.
2. Bstone mason, who shaped and laid the granite into free standing walls.
3. Cblacksmith, who forged smelted iron into hoes, axes and spearheads.
4. Dweaver, who worked bark fibre and reeds into baskets and sleeping mats.

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Adecisions were made by a council of hunters chosen by the king
2. Bdecisions were taken by the oldest man and announced to the band
3. Cdecisions were made by a king whose word could not be questioned
4. Ddecisions were reached by discussion until the whole band agreed

1. Arecognising their languages and teaching them in the schools they attend
2. Bdisplaying them at tourist camps so that visitors may photograph them
3. Cleaving them out of national programmes so their customs stay unchanged
4. Dmoving them into the towns so that they take up a settled way of life