History of South Africa podcast

228 Episodes

1. Episode 168 - Earl Grey and the irascible Sir Henry Pottinger leave their mark on South Africa

   Published: 4/28/2024
2. Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything

   Published: 4/21/2024
3. Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River

   Published: 4/14/2024
4. Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation

   Published: 4/5/2024
5. Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war

   Published: 3/31/2024
6. Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty

   Published: 3/24/2024
7. Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story

   Published: 3/16/2024
8. Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses

   Published: 3/10/2024
9. Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle

   Published: 3/3/2024
10. Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843

    Published: 2/25/2024
11. Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma

    Published: 2/17/2024
12. Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban

    Published: 2/11/2024
13. Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach

    Published: 2/4/2024
14. Episode 155 - The Eastern Cape economy surges and the Americans visit Port Natal as tension rises

    Published: 1/27/2024
15. Episode 154 - The Swellekamp grifter and Captain Smith marches from the Umgazi River to Port Natal

    Published: 1/21/2024
16. Episode 153 - Dr Livingstone disembarks and Pretorius and Potgieter bury the hatchet

    Published: 1/14/2024
17. Episode 152 - The amaTola San raiders of the Drakensberg: Horses, plant meds and the Chacma Baboon

    Published: 1/7/2024
18. Episode 151 - The polymath Sir John Herschel, his free school system and other 1840 interconnections

    Published: 12/31/2023
19. Episode 150 - Dingana assassinated near Ghost Mountain and the cultural appropriation tale of the toyi-toyi

    Published: 12/24/2023
20. Episode 149 - Mpande defeats Dingana at the Battle of amaQongqo and Bhibhi the beautiful is killed

    Published: 12/17/2023