History of South Africa podcast

228 Episodes

1. Episode 228 - From Skepticism to Stampede: The Diamond Rush Awakens

   Published: 6/22/2025
2. Episode 227 - Diamonds, War, and Destiny: Moshoeshoe, the Boers, and the Stone That Changed South Africa

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

   Published: 6/8/2025
4. Episode 225 - Between Diamonds and Desolation: The Griqua's Journey to East Griqualand

   Published: 6/1/2025
5. Episode 224 - El Niño’s and Al Nina’s and the Griqua Great Trek to Nomansland

   Published: 5/25/2025
6. Episode 223 - The Calliper and the Lens: Gustav Fritsch in the Southern Light (1863–1865)

   Published: 5/18/2025
7. Episode 222 - Global events 1863, Namaqualand Copper and Gunny Sack Shacks

   Published: 5/11/2025
8. Episode 221 - Free State Judges, the Transvaal Civil War and the Architecture of Deliberation

   Published: 5/4/2025
9. Episode 220 - The Transvaal Civil War of 1862-1864 and Paul Kruger’s Dopping Doppers

   Published: 4/27/2025
10. Episode 219 - The Snarled Chronicle of John Orr, Wodehouse Blues and Mercantile Matters

    Published: 4/20/2025
11. Episode 218 - Lifestyle Update 1861 and an Ode to Landscape Motion Intensity and Physiology

    Published: 4/13/2025
12. Episode 217 - Lovedale, amaXhosa Chiefs Languish on Robben Island and the American Civil War

    Published: 4/4/2025
13. Episode 216 - Mpande and Cetshwayo’s Shakespearean Drama Continues, it’s all King Lear, Richard III and Macbeth

    Published: 3/30/2025
14. Episode 215 – Ostriches Trump Elephants in 1860 and John Dunn: Musket Trader Extraordinaire

    Published: 3/22/2025
15. Episode 214 - Booming Port Elizabeth, Cunning Cape Town, Indentured Indians and Quarrelling Republics

    Published: 3/15/2025
16. Episode 213 - Grey Mediates, Boshof Fulminates and Moshoeshoe Vacillates before the Treaty of Aliwal North

    Published: 3/8/2025
17. Episode 212 - The Basotho-Boer War of 1858 leads to a Burgher Backfire

    Published: 3/1/2025
18. Episode 211 - “Native” Hut Taxes, Blackbirding and other Revelations of 1857

    Published: 2/22/2025
19. Episode 210 - Social Bandits on the Borderlands and other hybrid tales of Nomansland

    Published: 2/16/2025
20. Episode 209 - Cetshwayo attacks Mbuyazi at the Battle of Ndondakusuka where the Crocodiles Feast

    Published: 2/8/2025