History of South Africa podcast

229 Episodes

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

   Published: 7/29/2023
2. EPISODE 128 - Dingane smells blood and Retief leads the United Laagers

   Published: 7/23/2023
3. Episode 127 - Predikant blues and Piet Retief’s manifesto

   Published: 7/16/2023
4. Episode 126 - A Voortrekker commando takes revenge and the sedulous Susanna Smit

   Published: 7/7/2023
5. Episode 125 - The Battle of Vegkop pits the Voortrekkers against the amaNdebele

   Published: 7/2/2023
6. Episode 124 - The difference between Trekboers and Voortrekkers and the battle of Kopjeskraal

   Published: 6/25/2023
7. Episode 123 - The Voortrekkers as Israelites and Mzilikazi is about to become Pharaoh

   Published: 6/17/2023
8. Episode 122 - Lord Glenelg moulds a troublous history

   Published: 6/11/2023
9. Episode 121 - Lang Hans Janse Van Rensburg’s fatal ivory obsession and the peho slippery snake

   Published: 6/4/2023
10. Episode 120 - Ploughs in the Platberg, the BaSotho, the MaBuru, MaNyesemane and the BaKhothu

    Published: 5/28/2023
11. Episode 119 - The saga of Moshoeshoe, how his grandfather was eaten, and mystical advisor Tsapi

    Published: 5/21/2023
12. Episode 118 - Voortrekkers cross the Orange River carrying ancestral blood from the orient

    Published: 5/14/2023
13. Episode 117 - The Sixth Frontier War ends in a draw and Trekboers like Louis Trichardt seek the promised land

    Published: 5/7/2023
14. Episode 116 - A murder most foul and the British wilt as the guerrilla war weakens resolve

    Published: 4/30/2023
15. Episode 115 - Hintsa becomes a hostage and the Mfengu become British

    Published: 4/23/2023
16. Episode 114 - The British clamber up the slopes of the Amatolas chasing Xhosa ghosts and the mysterious Mfengu

    Published: 4/16/2023
17. Episode 113 - Guerrilla warfare throws up a challenge while Jannie Hostage and Ou Blouberg plan their escape

    Published: 4/9/2023
18. Episode 112 - Hand-to-hand fighting along the Great Fish River

    Published: 4/2/2023
19. Episode 111 - Harry Smith arrives in panic-stricken Grahamstown in January 1835 and stiffens settler spines

    Published: 3/26/2023
20. Episode 110 - Sir Harry Smith, his petite guerriere espagnole Lady Smith and the revenge of the amaXhosa

    Published: 3/19/2023