Paper 1 · the First Chimurenga: the Ndebele Uprising of 1896
Study the photograph of dead cattle. A source of this kind helps to explain the 1896 Ndebele Uprising because it shows...
Athe herds the Ndebele slaughtered for their own war feasts
Bthe wealth the Ndebele lost in the months before the rising
Cthe cattle the Ndebele had captured on raids into Mashonaland
Dthe meat the settlers were selling to the Ndebele in Bulawayo
Explanation: Cattle were the store of Ndebele wealth, the means of marriage and a large part of the diet, so losing the herds to disease and then to the Company's slaughter orders was a blow to every household. A photograph shows the scale of the loss, though it cannot by itself say who ordered the killing or why people rose.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 1, Nov 2025, Q1