228 Episodes

  1. Episode 148 - The AmaZulu routed by amaSwazi Widow Bird warriors and Mpande’s exodus

    Published: 12/7/2023

  2. Episode 147 - Coloured enters the lexicon in 1838 as Captain Jervis reports his coal find

    Published: 12/3/2023

  3. Episode 146 - The Battle of oPathe where Bhongoza and Hans Dons earn oral history stripes

    Published: 11/26/2023

  4. Episode 145 - The seminal Battle on the Ncome known as Blood River

    Published: 11/18/2023

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

    Published: 11/11/2023

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

    Published: 11/5/2023

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

    Published: 10/29/2023

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

    Published: 10/21/2023

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

    Published: 10/15/2023

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

    Published: 10/7/2023

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

    Published: 9/30/2023

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

    Published: 9/23/2023

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

    Published: 9/17/2023

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

    Published: 9/9/2023

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

    Published: 9/3/2023

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

    Published: 8/26/2023

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

    Published: 8/20/2023

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

    Published: 8/13/2023

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

    Published: 8/6/2023

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

    Published: 7/29/2023

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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.