Paper 2 · Religious Practitioners
Spirit mediums gave the Second Chimurenga religious authority mainly by declaring that
Athe war should be fought only during the dry season each year.
Bevery combatant had to pay a fee before joining the struggle.
Cthe ancestors demanded the recovery of land taken by the settlers.
Dthe guerrillas should abandon their clan totems while on operations.
Explanation: Because the mhondoro were understood to own the land, a declaration from their mediums that the land had been wrongfully taken turned the war into a just cause sanctioned by the ancestors. Peasants who would not have followed a political party followed the ancestors, which is what made mass mobilisation in the rural areas possible.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies 4047/2, Specimen Paper (embedded in the frs_o_p1 2018-batch specimen booklet, pages 6-7), Q1