History of South Africa podcast

231 Episodes

1. Episode 171 - Zwangendaba’s exodus from Pongola to Lake Tanganyika and the story of the Ngoni

   Published: 19/05/2024
2. Episode 170 - Harry Smith returns as the conquering hero and humiliates Maqoma while translators muddle along

   Published: 12/05/2024
3. Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest

   Published: 04/05/2024
4. Episode 168 - Earl Grey and the irascible Sir Henry Pottinger leave their mark on South Africa

   Published: 28/04/2024
5. Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything

   Published: 21/04/2024
6. Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River

   Published: 14/04/2024
7. Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation

   Published: 05/04/2024
8. Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war

   Published: 31/03/2024
9. Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty

   Published: 24/03/2024
10. Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story

    Published: 16/03/2024
11. Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses

    Published: 10/03/2024
12. Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle

    Published: 03/03/2024
13. Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843

    Published: 25/02/2024
14. Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma

    Published: 17/02/2024
15. Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban

    Published: 11/02/2024
16. Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach

    Published: 04/02/2024
17. Episode 155 - The Eastern Cape economy surges and the Americans visit Port Natal as tension rises

    Published: 27/01/2024
18. Episode 154 - The Swellekamp grifter and Captain Smith marches from the Umgazi River to Port Natal

    Published: 21/01/2024
19. Episode 153 - Dr Livingstone disembarks and Pretorius and Potgieter bury the hatchet

    Published: 14/01/2024
20. Episode 152 - The amaTola San raiders of the Drakensberg: Horses, plant meds and the Chacma Baboon

    Published: 07/01/2024