Paper 2 · Religious Practitioners
The ritual prohibitions issued to guerrillas by spirit mediums included
Aa requirement to pay roora in full before joining an operational unit.
Ba ban on fighting or working on chisi, the ancestors' rest day.
Ca rule that no fighter might eat any cooked food at all.
Da rule that every operation must be led by a chief in person.
Explanation: Mediums laid down rules such as keeping chisi, avoiding sexual relations during operations, refraining from certain foods, and not killing civilians without cause. These disciplined a young and scattered army and reassured villagers that the fighters were bound by the same religious law as they were.
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