Paper 1 · the First Chimurenga: the Ndebele Uprising of 1896
A source explains that, although the season was wrong, the Ndebele rose in March 1896 because of the advantage gained when Jameson left the country with a considerable number of his troops. Jameson had led those troops...
Aeast into Mozambique to fight the Portuguese
Bsouth to the Cape to meet Cecil Rhodes
Cnorth across the Zambezi into Barotseland
Dinto the Transvaal, on a raid that failed
Explanation: The Jameson Raid of December 1895 was an attempt to overthrow Kruger's government in the Transvaal. It collapsed within days, but it had stripped Matabeleland of most of its armed police, and the Ndebele saw that the country was for the moment lightly held.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 1, Nov 2025, Q1