History of South Africa podcast

231 Episodes

1. Episode 231 - Protestants and Catholics Struggle for Moshoeshoe’s Soul in 1870

   Published: 13/07/2025
2. Episode 230 - From Knysna’s Burning Forests to Tolstoy’s War and Peace: The World in 1869

   Published: 06/07/2025
3. Episode 229 - Moshoeshoe and the Red Dust: How War and Famine Led to British Rule in Lesotho

   Published: 29/06/2025
4. Episode 228 - From Skepticism to Stampede: The Diamond Rush Awakens

   Published: 22/06/2025
5. Episode 227 - Diamonds, War, and Destiny: Moshoeshoe, the Boers, and the Stone That Changed South Africa

   Published: 15/06/2025
6. Episode 226 – The Estate Agent of the Transvaal: Paul Kruger, Mokgatle, the amaMfengu Crossing, and the Battle for Land

   Published: 08/06/2025
7. Episode 225 - Between Diamonds and Desolation: The Griqua's Journey to East Griqualand

   Published: 01/06/2025
8. Episode 224 - El Niño’s and Al Nina’s and the Griqua Great Trek to Nomansland

   Published: 25/05/2025
9. Episode 223 - The Calliper and the Lens: Gustav Fritsch in the Southern Light (1863–1865)

   Published: 18/05/2025
10. Episode 222 - Global events 1863, Namaqualand Copper and Gunny Sack Shacks

    Published: 11/05/2025
11. Episode 221 - Free State Judges, the Transvaal Civil War and the Architecture of Deliberation

    Published: 04/05/2025
12. Episode 220 - The Transvaal Civil War of 1862-1864 and Paul Kruger’s Dopping Doppers

    Published: 27/04/2025
13. Episode 219 - The Snarled Chronicle of John Orr, Wodehouse Blues and Mercantile Matters

    Published: 20/04/2025
14. Episode 218 - Lifestyle Update 1861 and an Ode to Landscape Motion Intensity and Physiology

    Published: 13/04/2025
15. Episode 217 - Lovedale, amaXhosa Chiefs Languish on Robben Island and the American Civil War

    Published: 04/04/2025
16. Episode 216 - Mpande and Cetshwayo’s Shakespearean Drama Continues, it’s all King Lear, Richard III and Macbeth

    Published: 30/03/2025
17. Episode 215 – Ostriches Trump Elephants in 1860 and John Dunn: Musket Trader Extraordinaire

    Published: 22/03/2025
18. Episode 214 - Booming Port Elizabeth, Cunning Cape Town, Indentured Indians and Quarrelling Republics

    Published: 15/03/2025
19. Episode 213 - Grey Mediates, Boshof Fulminates and Moshoeshoe Vacillates before the Treaty of Aliwal North

    Published: 08/03/2025
20. Episode 212 - The Basotho-Boer War of 1858 leads to a Burgher Backfire

    Published: 01/03/2025