History of South Africa podcast

231 Episodes

1. Episode 191 - Trekkers' Bob-and-Weave Politics, Meneer Van Der Kolff forges a signature and a library burns

   Published: 05/10/2024
2. Episode 190 - The Birkenhead Drill 'Women and Children First’ tragedy and amaXhosa messages moving at the speed of light

   Published: 29/09/2024
3. Episode 189 - Karl Marx at the Great Exhibition, Eyre's Great Cattle Patrol and Smith gets the boot

   Published: 22/09/2024
4. Episode 188 - Hymns echo in the Waterkloof ravines as Khoekhoe snipers take aim at British officers

   Published: 15/09/2024
5. Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho

   Published: 08/09/2024
6. Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice

   Published: 01/09/2024
7. Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened

   Published: 25/08/2024
8. Episode 184 - A Fort Hare rout, “Vieux d’Afrique” Somerset and a British rethink about the role of chiefs in Africa

   Published: 18/08/2024
9. Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos

   Published: 11/08/2024
10. Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White

    Published: 04/08/2024
11. Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga

    Published: 28/07/2024
12. Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass

    Published: 21/07/2024
13. Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor

    Published: 14/07/2024
14. Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge

    Published: 07/07/2024
15. Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn

    Published: 30/06/2024
16. Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia

    Published: 22/06/2024
17. Episode 175 - A whip around the world in 1849 and a wide-angle view of Cape Society

    Published: 16/06/2024
18. Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

    Published: 09/06/2024
19. Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter’s last trek

    Published: 01/06/2024
20. Episode 172 - The Republic of Potchefstroom, Potgieter treks into Bapedi country and Mswati faces rebellion

    Published: 26/05/2024