Introducing ZimbabweYou have 10 minutes to produce:

1 hand drawn sketch map of Zimbabwe with

• Three cities marked on including the capital city

• Label the four surrounding countries

1 fact box containing the following information

• GDP (Per capita PPP)

• Life Expectancy

• Literacy Rate

• HDI rating

• The old colonial name for Zimbabwe

• Who colonised Zimbabwe? (remember your WW2 day in Y12?)

1 person profile of Robert Mugabe detailing

• His age

• How long has he been in power

• The name of his political party

• Controversy surrounding his leadership

Zimbabwe

IB DP Geography

Disparities in wealth and development

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Sipan Areen

Zimbabwe

President’s house

GDP per capita (PPP US$) 2002

Life expectancyat birth (years) 2002

Zimbabwe’s GDP and life expectancy

http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/reports/chart.aspx

Adult literacy rate (%ages 15 and above) 2002

Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary

schools (%) 2001/02

Human development index (HDI) value 2002

HDI

• Zimbabwe is the 156th country in the world for HDI.

• Zimbabwe is the 24th country in Africa for HDI.

Colonization

• In the 1880s, the British arrived with Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company. In 1898, the name Southern Rhodesia was adopted. Rhodes sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as 'Zambesia'. In 1895 the BSAC adopted the name 'Rhodesia' for the territory of Zambesia, in honour of Cecil Rhodes. In 1898 'Southern Rhodesia' became the official denotation for the region south of the Zambezi,which later became Zimbabwe.

Robert Mugabe

• Born: February 21, 1924 (age 90), in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

• Office: President of Zimbabwe since 1987 (27 years)

• By 1980, Southern Rhodesia was liberated from British rule and became the independent Republic of Zimbabwe. Running under the ZANU party banner, Mugabe was elected prime minister of the new republic, after running against Nkomo.

• ZANU-Zimbabwe African National Union (Mugabe)

• ZAPU-Zimbabwe African People's Union (Nkomo)

• Routinely accused of terrible human rights abuses, Mugabe is also held accountable for running his country’s economy into the ground, provoking financially devastating economic sanctions with his brutally inept leadership.

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