BROADCASTS.com

This episode we return to the eastern coastal region of what would become Zululand \u2013 but first we\u2019ll cover the trekboers quick getaway in the Zuurveld.
\nIt\u2019s crazy town time at Ngqika\u2019s Great Place after Ndlambe his uncle makes off westwards and the Khoe in the area decide it\u2019s time to fight the trekboers once more.
\nBy the end of 1800 Coenraad de Buys had convinced all trekboers and the missionary Van Der Kemp it was time to leave the amaXhosa king\u2019s /Great Place before he killed them all.
\nNgqika\u2019s vascillations between were unnerving and so when de Buys suggested they all leave through a cunning plan he had devised, Van Der Kemp was ready to go. The reason is not too difficult to fathom. In more than a year of prothelitising, Van der Kemp had managed a scant conversion of five Khoekhoe women and their children.
\nNot one amaXhosa had converted to Christianity, furthermore, van Der Kemp had been forbidden to preach to the amaXhosa. And the Boers living in the Great Place were also no help \u2013 in fact while his back was turned some were helping themselves to his property and were caught doing this.
\nHowever, it\u2019s time to leave our intrepid missionary and to head back north eastwards, to what would become known as Zululand.
\nUp to 1800 the situation on the coastal section and the plateau had been radically transformed and this transformation would accelerate over the coming years. There were three overlapping phases of change taking place starting from the last quarter of the 18th Century and running through until after 1870 with the British Zulu wars dominating events in the latter period.