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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

ECONOMIC HISTORY A0AG/2
PAPER 2: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE SINCE 1980
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Answer paper

TIME 2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer
paper.

Answeranyfour questions.

Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided.

If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

This paper consists of 15 questions.

All questions in this paper carry 25 marks.

Read carefully through the whole paper before choosing the questions you intend to answer.

This question paper consists of 5 printed pages and 3 blank pages.
Copyright: Zimbabwe School Examinations Council, Specimen Paper.
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Carefully study the following sources and then answer all the questions which follow.
Source A

The Communists talked to the masses and urged violence, if it was necessary to achieve
their goals. The Socialists appealed to their own intellectuals who became the followers of
their ideas. Utopia-builders were said to have existed since Plato, but it was not until the

French Revolution that they began to react to economic as well as political injustice. They
developed a hatred for private property.

Adapted from a book by an African Historian.

Source B

Marx’s predictions have not all been realised. In the first place, Marx predicted that as
capitalism developed class differenceswould increase but the very opposite happened. He
also predicted that the Communist Revolution would occur in the industrialised countries
of the Western World, but the very opposite happened. On almost every basic issue Marx
was proven wrong. There was every reason, therefore, to dismiss Marxism as bankrupt.
Adapted from a book by a Zimbabwean Historian published in 1995.

Source C

The materialist conception of history was based on the belief that the production and
exchange of goods was the basis of every social order. The division of society into classes
in each society was determined by what was produced how it was produced and how the
production was exchanged. According to this conception the ultimate causes of all social
changes and political revolutions were to be found not in the minds of men or their
increasing sight, but in changes in the mode of production and exchange.

Adapted from F. Engels’s essay entitled ‘Socialism’, cited by an African Historian.

(a) Read Source A

What evidence in the source indicates that capitalism was not a popular
ideology? [4]

&b) Read SourceB

How accurate is this description of the results of Marx’s predictions? [5]

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How reliable is this source in explaining the capitalist mode of production?
Explain your answer. [5]

@ _ ~—_— Read Sources B and C
Do the two sources have anything in common? Explain your answer. [5]
(()) Read Source B

What do you think would be the reactions of various groups of people

to the description of Marx’s ideologies given by the writer? 6]
(a) Describe the theory of classical economics by Adam Smith. 15
&) To what extent has Adam Smith’s theory been adopted by the

government of Zimbabwe? 10
(a) Outline the industrial workers’ grievances in Zimbabwe since 1980. 15

® How far has the government of Zimbabwe been able to solve these
grievances? 10

(a) Describe the goals and measures introduced by the Zimbabwe
Government in implementing the Zimbabwe Programme for Economic
and Social Transformation (ZIMPREST) in 1998. 15

@® ——s How successful was the government in implementing this programme? 10

@@) —_ Outline the economic problems that have been faced by people in the
rural areas of Zimbabwe since 1980. 15

® _ To what extent has the government of Zimbabwe been able to solve the
problems faced by the rural people? 10

(a) Describe the steps taken by the Zimbabwe Government to industrialise
since 1980. 15

® Has the government succeeded in industrialising the country? Explain your
answer. 10

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Describe the goals of the indigenisation programmein Zimbabwe since
2008.

Has the government been successful in implementing the indigenisation
policy? Explain your answer.

Outline the economic problems faced by the Mozambican government
since 1980.

To what extent have these problems affected Zimbabwe?

Describe the economic goals of the Southern A frica Development
Community (SADC).

Has Zimbabwe benefitted economically from being a member of SADC?
Explain your answer.

Outline the major problems faced by the informal traders in Zimbabwe
since independence.

How successful has the government been in addressing the concerns of
the informal traders?

Describe the economic steps taken by the government of Zimbabwe to
improve the status of women.

How far have women benefitted from these measures?

Outline the steps taken by the government of Zimbabwe to empower the
youth since 1980.

To what extent has youth empowerment been successful in Zimbabwe?

Describe the economic problems faced by African Union (AU) member
states since its formation.

Has the AU succeeded in solving these problems? Explain your answer.

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Outline the effects of the economic sanctions imposed on the Zimbabwe
Government by the West since 2000.

To what extent has the government of Zimbabwe succeeded in dealing
with the effects of the economic sanctions?

Describe Zimbabwe’s Look East Policy.

To what extent has this policy benefitted the Zimbabwean people?

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