ZIMSEC · A Level · Syllabus 6081
Heritage Studies
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Form 5 · Lower 6 4 topics
- Heritage, culture and identity Local knowledge in agriculture (seed selection, rain prediction), medicine, conservation (totems, taboos, sacred forests) and conflict resolution. IKS can complement modern science but needs documentation and protection from exploitation (biopiracy).
- Heritage management and conservation Mana Pools (1984), Great Zimbabwe (1986), Khami (1986), Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls (1989, shared with Zambia), Matobo Hills (2003). Intangible heritage elements include the Mbende Jerusarema dance and the art of making and playing mbira/sansi.
- Unhu/Ubuntu philosophy and ethics Unhu/Ubuntu/Vumunhu is an African philosophy of personhood: “Munhu munhu nevanhu / Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” – a person is a person through other people.
- Governance, constitutionalism and the rule of law Government limited by a constitution: separation of powers, checks and balances, the rule of law, judicial independence, and protection of rights.
Form 6 · Upper 6 3 topicsExam year
- Economic heritage: land, natural resources and empowerment Land is central to identity, livelihood and spirituality. Colonial dispossession (Land Apportionment Act 1930, Land Tenure Act 1969) concentrated the best land among white settlers.
- Liberation heritage and nation-building Memories, sites, songs and literature of the First and Second Chimurenga/Umvukela shape national identity: National Heroes' Acre, provincial heroes' acres, shrines, liberation war sites (e.g. Chimoio and Nyadzonia in Mozambique, Freedom Camp in Zambia), museums, and Chimurenga songs.
- Zimbabwe in regional and international relations Sovereignty, non-interference, peaceful coexistence, pan-Africanism, regional integration and economic diplomacy.