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History of South Africa podcast

History of South Africa podcast

41 episodes

A series that seeks to tell the story of the South Africa in some depth. Presented by experienced broadcaster/podcaster Des Latham and updated weekly, the episodes will take a listener through the various epochs that have made up the story of South Africa.

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Episode 144 - Mpande evades Dingane’s assassination plot, the British seize Durban and Pretorius plans a covenant

Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 143 - The World in 1838, New Veld Tech and Plough Enhancements

Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 142 - Moshoeshoe the beard-shearer and the complex theological soup of the BaSotho

Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 7:33 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 141 — An ode to the Orange River and San spoor blows in the wind

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 140 - High Noon at Gatslaager & Mzilikazi barges into the Batswana

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 6:32 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 139 - The Battle of Thukela/Dlokweni, Durban is sacked and the Republiek Natalia proclaimed

Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 138 - The yin and yang of Stretch and Bowker and the Grand Army of Natal marches again

Published: Sept. 30, 2023, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 137 - The Vlugkommando of April 1838 and a hard rain continues to fall

Published: Sept. 23, 2023, 11:33 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 136 - The place of weeping earns its name and the“Grand Army of Natal” marches off

Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 12:39 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 135 - The Zulu army overruns the Voortrekkers along the Bloukrans and Bushman’s River

Published: Sept. 9, 2023, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 134 - Lightning kills 12 Boer horses then the wizards die

Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 7:37 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 133 - Umkhandlu long thumb nails and tales of ill-gotten grain

Published: Aug. 26, 2023, 5:32 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 132 - Piet Retief rides into Natal and land is on the agenda

Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 10:13 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 131 - Sharpened horns at the battle of eGabeni and the story of the Liebenberg girls

Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 7:53 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 130 - Piet Uys’ 1820 Settler Bible and the Qadi cut poles

Published: Aug. 6, 2023, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds

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EPISODE 129 - Lindley blesses the Boers, a sweep of 1837 and Stockenström’s bitter end

Published: July 29, 2023, 12:21 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 4 seconds

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EPISODE 128 - Dingane smells blood and Retief leads the United Laagers

Published: July 23, 2023, 8:56 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 127 - Predikant blues and Piet Retief’s manifesto

Published: July 16, 2023, 3:42 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 126 - A Voortrekker commando takes revenge and the sedulous Susanna Smit

Published: July 7, 2023, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 125 - The Battle of Vegkop pits the Voortrekkers against the amaNdebele

Published: July 2, 2023, 2:36 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 124 - The difference between Trekboers and Voortrekkers and the battle of Kopjeskraal

Published: June 25, 2023, 2:54 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 123 - The Voortrekkers as Israelites and Mzilikazi is about to become Pharaoh

Published: June 17, 2023, 8:38 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 122 - Lord Glenelg moulds a troublous history

Published: June 11, 2023, 1:48 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 121 - Lang Hans Janse Van Rensburg’s fatal ivory obsession and the peho slippery snake

Published: June 4, 2023, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 120 - Ploughs in the Platberg, the BaSotho, the MaBuru, MaNyesemane and the BaKhothu

Published: May 28, 2023, 3:01 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 119 - The saga of Moshoeshoe, how his grandfather was eaten, and mystical advisor Tsapi

Published: May 21, 2023, 10:24 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 118 - Voortrekkers cross the Orange River carrying ancestral blood from the orient

Published: May 14, 2023, 7:51 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Episode 117 - The Sixth Frontier War ends in a draw and Trekboers like Louis Trichardt seek the promised land

Published: May 7, 2023, 6:54 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 116 - A murder most foul and the British wilt as the guerrilla war weakens resolve

Published: April 30, 2023, 8:04 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 115 - Hintsa becomes a hostage and the Mfengu become British

Published: April 23, 2023, 6:35 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 114 - The British clamber up the slopes of the Amatolas chasing Xhosa ghosts and the mysterious Mfengu

Published: April 16, 2023, 9:16 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 113 - Guerrilla warfare throws up a challenge while Jannie Hostage and Ou Blouberg plan their escape

Published: April 9, 2023, 10:09 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 112 - Hand-to-hand fighting along the Great Fish River

Published: April 2, 2023, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 111 - Harry Smith arrives in panic-stricken Grahamstown in January 1835 and stiffens settler spines

Published: March 26, 2023, 7:03 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 110 - Sir Harry Smith, his petite guerriere espagnole Lady Smith and the revenge of the amaXhosa

Published: March 19, 2023, 2:38 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 109 - Maqoma’s war begins as the amaXhosa invade the Colony in December 1834

Published: March 11, 2023, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 108 - Mzilikazi empties the lower Vaal, Sir Benjamin D’Urban arrives and slaves are emancipated

Published: March 4, 2023, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 107 - Dr Andrew Smith, his mysterious Dingane expedition and a bit of XGaoXna- Knysna

Published: Feb. 25, 2023, 10:52 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 106 - Rustling along the Amatolas in 1830 and Dingane’s black liver

Published: Feb. 19, 2023, 7:29 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 105 - The Kat River Settlement of 1829 and how Maqoma was evicted

Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 7:27 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 104 - Matiwane’s Ngwane massacred at Mbholompo and Hintsa's ama-Bulu

Published: Feb. 4, 2023, 1:36 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 103 - Barend Barends battered and the men in black on the frontier

Published: Jan. 29, 2023, 7:19 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 102 - Tales of the Trans Vaal and how Magaliesberg got its name

Published: Jan. 22, 2023, 7:24 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 101 - Mnkabayi dresses like a man and Dingane drowns his brother

Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 6:34 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 100 - Ordinance 50 shock, Dr John’s mission and Wesleyans vs polygamy

Published: Jan. 7, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Episode 99 – Shaka assassinated by muddle-headed brothers Dingane and Mhlangana

Published: Jan. 1, 2023, 6:48 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 98 – Nandi dies, Zulu diplomats in the Cape & Shaka raids the amaMpondo

Published: Dec. 25, 2022, 7:18 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 97 – Shaka shifts South, Mzilikazi raids West and Fynn becomes Zulu

Published: Dec. 18, 2022, 7:36 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 96 – A “bipolar” Shaka hunts down and exterminates Sikhunyane’s Ndwandwe

Published: Dec. 11, 2022, 7:24 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 95 – Sunset for Somerset and Maqoma eyes guns and horses in 1825

Published: Dec. 4, 2022, 7:52 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 94 – White and black ants in Botswana and Eastern Cape secession

Published: Nov. 27, 2022, 6:35 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 93 –Shaka survives an assassination attempt and Farewell gets Port Natal

Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 6:36 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 92 – The monsters from the sea and a Robben Island convict advises Shaka

Published: Nov. 13, 2022, 7:50 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 91 – An early history of Port Natal and its treacherous sand bar

Published: Nov. 6, 2022, 6:48 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 90 – Slaves, Somerset and the SA Commercial Advertiser

Published: Oct. 30, 2022, 6:50 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 89 – Shaka’s mojo and the debate about the Mfecane

Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 8:09 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 88 – Somerset’s printing press paranoia and Shaka’s Inkatha power

Published: Oct. 16, 2022, 5:48 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 87 – San poison, the world in 1821 and an MP “hectic spectacle"

Published: Oct. 8, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 86– Somerset vs Donkin and dueling missions

Published: Oct. 2, 2022, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 85– Honey birds, leopards, gardens of cattle and a bloody ochre harvest

Published: Sept. 24, 2022, 5:39 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 84 – The 1820 Settlers ramble among Algoa Bay shrubbery

Published: Sept. 17, 2022, 4:04 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 83 – The amakhosikazi sipper of Cobra venom and the 1820 Settlers

Published: Sept. 10, 2022, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 82 – Shaka outfoxes Zwide at the Mhlathuze River

Published: Sept. 3, 2022, 6:14 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 81 – Shaka orders ladders, Dingiswayo dies and Mzilikazi emerges

Published: Aug. 28, 2022, 12:55 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 80 – Sambela the Mkhize psychopath and the Zulu cadet system evolves

Published: Aug. 21, 2022, 12:12 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 79 – The Wardoctor is defeated and Willshire does a deal with Hintsa

Published: Aug. 14, 2022, 7:07 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 1 second

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Episode 78 – 10 000 Xhosa warriors led by Makhanda aka Nxele attack Grahamstown

Published: Aug. 6, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 77 – The strange tale of Dr (Ms) James Barry and Makhanda’s War begins

Published: July 30, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 76 – The vicious battle of Amalinde and the messianic force of Makhanda

Published: July 24, 2022, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 75 – Lord Charles Somerset reinforces the Fish River then meets the amaXhoseni and misreads Ngqika

Published: July 17, 2022, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 74 – The horror story that is Slagter’s Nek of 1816 and its role in Afrikaner nationalism

Published: July 9, 2022, 8:22 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 73 – Shaka overwhelmes the Qwabe and the British upend the trekboer Loan Farm tradition

Published: July 3, 2022, 7:52 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 72 – Shaka flees south over the Thukela River as Zwide’s Ndwandwe expand their raiding

Published: June 26, 2022, 7:16 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 71 – Calendars, the lunar month and the Zulu “houses of the sun”

Published: June 19, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 1 second

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Episode 70 – Senzangakhona dies and Shaka takes over as chief of the AmaZulu

Published: June 12, 2022, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 69 – Senzangakhona’s “Jerusalem of the Zulus”, his beautiful wife Bhibhi and a bit of Delagoa Bay

Published: June 5, 2022, 8:20 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 68 – Stockenström’s anguish, Dingiswayo and the beginning of the era of blood, power and iron

Published: May 29, 2022, 8:35 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 67 – Wardoctor Nxele begins to see visions as he synthesises amaXhosa religion with Christianity

Published: May 22, 2022, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 66 – The Fourth Frontier war bursts into flame, Chungwa is shot and Stockenstrom is assegai'd

Published: May 15, 2022, 8:34 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 65 – Graham launches his terror campaign in the Zuurveld and Chungwa of the Gqunukhwebe is in his sights

Published: May 8, 2022, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 64 – The amaXhosa “strolling” days are numbered as Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock arrives

Published: May 1, 2022, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 63 – Shaka’s isicoco regulation, a “she” rebellion and Lieutenant Colonel Collins collects intel

Published: April 24, 2022, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 62 – Dingiswayo and Shaka of the amaMthethwa, Ndlambe and Ngqika of the amaRharhabe

Published: April 17, 2022, 8:27 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 61 – British Governor Lord Caledon launches the pass law system in the Cape in 1808

Published: April 8, 2022, 7:47 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 60 – The Battle of Blaauberg in 1806 and an American landdrost takes control of the Eastern Cape

Published: April 3, 2022, 7:58 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 59 – Senzangakhona and his son Shaka, Janssens has a plan and American sailors ogle the eastern Cape

Published: March 27, 2022, 6:59 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 58 – A dilemma of principle as religious freedom and a reformed government are introduced in 1803

Published: March 20, 2022, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 57 – The Batavian Republic takes over the Cape in 1803 with a “Methods in dealing with Savages” handbook

Published: March 13, 2022, 6:20 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 56 – The burghers suffer their worst setback since 1652 as the Third Frontier War reignites in 1801

Published: March 6, 2022, 6:57 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 55 – Somerville's 1802 description of the baThlaping and their grand capital at Dithakong

Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 54 – Doctor William Somerville’s extraordinary expedition to the Orange River in 1801

Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 7:11 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 53 – The surge in centralized chiefdoms circa 1800 and the development of an African military system

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 52 – Christmas 1799 brings a fortuitous Amatola downpour and the intertwining of futures

Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 7:17 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 51 – The Third Frontier War ends and missionaries trek into a snake’s nest at Ngqika’s Great Place

Published: Jan. 29, 2022, 11:43 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 50 – Brigadier General Vandeleur fires grapeshot at the amaXhosa setting off 80 years of warfare

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 6:32 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 49 – The Khoe War of 1799, Gerrit Owies is speared in the back and the Boers face the Hottentot Corps

Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 6:51 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Episode 48 – Petrus Pienaar shot dead on his Hantam farm in 1797 and the Afrikaaner rebellion goes into top gear

Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Episode 47 – Tales of the Hantam including the bandit van Zijl family and the indefatigable trekboer Elsie Visagie

Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 46 – We meet the Afrikaaner Oorlams of Namaqualand and Griqua founder Adam Kok the First

Published: Dec. 26, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 45 – The ancient people of the Orange River islands, the Namaqualand Korana and the “Bastaards”

Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 7:40 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 44 – Trekboer Coenraad de Buys marries amaXhosa Queen Nojoli aka Yese and Barrow exacts a confounded promise

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 6:14 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 43 – Lady Anne throws dinner parties as John Barrow and the Dragoons take a trip to Graaff-Reinet

Published: Dec. 5, 2021, 7:04 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 42 – Lady Anne Barnard, Earl Macartney and the van Reenen meat bank of the 1790s

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 41 – The English take Cape Town, Americans flee and trekboer rebels tear down a flag

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 6:42 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 40 – The Second Frontier War and the Graaff-Reinet rebellion

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 39 – Rebel Coenraad de Buys, lover of Xhosa chief Ngqika’s mother and a preamble to the Second Frontier War

Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 6:35 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 38 – The First Frontier War of 1781 and why the survivors of the Grosvenor were attacked by the amaXhosa

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 37 – How the amaXhosa waged war and Governor Van Plettenberg takes a trip to the Great Fish River

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 6:41 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 36 – The French and British fight over the Cape as bounty hunter Willem Prinsloo crosses the Fish River

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 5:35 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 35 – The Mthethwa and Ndwandwe flex their muscles in what eventually will become known as Zululand

Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 34 – Trading and raiding, American whalers and the emergence of pre-Zulu chiefdoms in the East

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 1 second

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Episode 33 – By 1771 Cape Town has a name and explorers begin arriving in droves

Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 32 – An intermingling on the frontiers begins in earnest and a wide-angle view of the mid-to-late 18th C

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 31 – Trade increases between Delagoa Bay and the Tswana and the Dutch Reformed Church makes its mark in the Cape

Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 30 – Shipwrecked women and their Xhosa clan, the art of making amasi and the amatakati

Published: Sept. 5, 2021, 6:43 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 29 – Murder, massacre and pacification of the Roodezand Khoi while settler rebel Barbier meets a grisly end.

Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 6:22 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 28 – The Bushman War of 1739 and the role of French outlaw Estienne Barbier

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 7:07 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 27 – The slaughtering in the Sandveld and the causes of the 1739 frontier war

Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 8:29 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 26 – The Boers begin expanding across the Cape frontier

Published: Aug. 8, 2021, 7:33 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 25 – The Xhosa social system and the TrekBoer Economy is born

Published: Aug. 1, 2021, 7:34 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 24 – The foundation of the Xhosa Kingdom, Tshawe, Phalo, Gcaleka and Rharhabe.

Published: July 25, 2021, 7:32 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 23 – A trip through ancient Xhosaland

Published: July 18, 2021, 6:49 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 22 – Islam at the Cape, Adam Tas vs the Governor and a radical new land policy

Published: July 11, 2021, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 21 – The Nguni move west, maize arrives and smallpox eviscerates the Cape

Published: July 4, 2021, 7:50 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 20 – The breakdown of Khoekhoe society in the Cape, corruption and miscegenation

Published: June 27, 2021, 6:48 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 19 – The French Huguenots arrive in 1688 while to the north the Xhosa deal with shipwrecked European sailors

Published: June 20, 2021, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 18 – Early days of coloured single-parent Simon van der Stel and the first Venda miners appear

Published: June 13, 2021, 7:21 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 1 second

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Episode 17 – The second Khoe-Dutch war of 1673-1677 and the Cape begins to develop a cosmopolitan nature

Published: June 6, 2021, 7:53 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 16 – Krotoa aka Eva and the Khoekhoe disputes of the 1660s

Published: May 30, 2021, 7:21 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 15 – The first Khoe-Dutch war of 1659-60, van Riebeeck lays out a mini-frontier and horses in the Cape.

Published: May 23, 2021, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 14 – The first settlers begin farming on Khoekhoe grazing land, Doman plans an uprising and slaves in the Cape.

Published: May 16, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 13 – Harry the Strandloper makes off with the Dutch herd and van Riebeeck orders a new garden at Rondebosch

Published: May 9, 2021, 7:29 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 12 – Jan van Riebeeck’s refreshment station Khoekhoe blues

Published: May 2, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 11 – Jan van Riebeeck sets up the Tavern of the Seas and the amaXhosa/Khoekhoe relationship develops

Published: April 25, 2021, 6:21 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 10 – Coree the Khoekhoe learns English and Jan van Riebeeck the surgeon is dispatched to the Cape.

Published: April 18, 2021, 8:53 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 9 –KhoeKhoe power networks and the Dutch create the VOC charter company

Published: April 11, 2021, 7:31 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 8 - The San art of the Apocalypse, a Dutch maritime revolution and Sir Francis Drake lauds the ‘fairest Cape’

Published: April 4, 2021, 7:36 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 7 – Vasco de Gama reports African dogs also bark and the demise of Great Zimbabwe

Published: March 28, 2021, 7:53 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 6 - Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, the first Sotho/Tswana and Nguni and a bit of Bartolomeu Dias

Published: March 20, 2021, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 5 - The Mapungubwe empire emerges from Indian Ocean trade networks in southern Africa

Published: March 14, 2021, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 4 - Pottery and ivory trade between 250AD and 1000AD as farmers fan out over the coastal lowlands

Published: March 7, 2021, 6:24 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 3 – 6000 year-old hunter-gatherer ochre and the first Bantu farmers arrive in Southern Africa

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 2 - A scenic swoop through Southern Africa and the ice-age that almost caused human extinction

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 6:50 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds

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A Geology excursion and Southern African pre-history – wealth hidden in ancient rocks

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: History