History of South Africa podcast

228 Episodes

1. Episode 188 - Hymns echo in the Waterkloof ravines as Khoekhoe snipers take aim at British officers

   Published: 9/15/2024
2. Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho

   Published: 9/8/2024
3. Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice

   Published: 9/1/2024
4. Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened

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

   Published: 8/18/2024
6. Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos

   Published: 8/11/2024
7. Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White

   Published: 8/4/2024
8. Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga

   Published: 7/28/2024
9. Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass

   Published: 7/21/2024
10. Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor

    Published: 7/14/2024
11. Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge

    Published: 7/7/2024
12. Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn

    Published: 6/30/2024
13. Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia

    Published: 6/22/2024
14. Episode 175 - A whip around the world in 1849 and a wide-angle view of Cape Society

    Published: 6/16/2024
15. Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

    Published: 6/9/2024
16. Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter’s last trek

    Published: 6/1/2024
17. Episode 172 - The Republic of Potchefstroom, Potgieter treks into Bapedi country and Mswati faces rebellion

    Published: 5/26/2024
18. Episode 171 - Zwangendaba’s exodus from Pongola to Lake Tanganyika and the story of the Ngoni

    Published: 5/19/2024
19. Episode 170 - Harry Smith returns as the conquering hero and humiliates Maqoma while translators muddle along

    Published: 5/12/2024
20. Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest

    Published: 5/4/2024