The Anglo-Boer War
A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes
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Episode 123 - Major Vallentin eats his last lunch & General Botha fights his last Transvaal battle
Published: 1/26/2020 -
Episode 122 - The dishonourable ex-fiancé Karel de Kock & the Witwatersrand Rifle Regiment
Published: 1/19/2020 -
Episode 121 - – The Kenyan Trek Boers of Eldoret & Smuts goes swimming
Published: 1/12/2020 -
Episode 120 - Reitz meets a Swiss Family Robinson & Kitchener rethinks the Concentration Camp system
Published: 1/5/2020 -
Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin
Published: 12/29/2019 -
Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present
Published: 12/22/2019 -
Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message
Published: 12/14/2019 -
Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion
Published: 12/8/2019 -
Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens
Published: 12/1/2019 -
Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed
Published: 11/24/2019 -
Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki
Published: 11/17/2019 -
Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death
Published: 11/10/2019 -
Episode 111 - Lord Kitchener and the Brat hunt a starling while de Wet broods at Blijdskap
Published: 11/3/2019 -
Episode 110 - General Buller flayed by the press as Botha pulverises Benson at Bakenlaagte.
Published: 10/27/2019 -
Episode 109 - Borrius loses an eye and Smuts is forced to split his force
Published: 10/20/2019 -
Episode 108 - The Commando laid low by "Hottentots Bread" within striking distance of Port Elizabeth
Published: 10/13/2019 -
Episode 107 - Churchill doubts Kitchener & Colonel Scobell butchers Lotter in a sheep shed
Published: 10/6/2019 -
Episode 106 - The 17th Lancers survived the Charge of the Light Brigade but not the Rijk Section
Published: 9/29/2019 -
Episode 105 - General Louis Botha stumbles & sleet causes chaos for Jan Smuts
Published: 9/22/2019 -
Episode 104 - A hunchback leads Smuts to safety & Captain Gough's fatal cavalry charge
Published: 9/15/2019
The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 saw the British Empire at the height of its power facing a small band of highly mobile Boers in South Africa. The war introduced the world to the concentration camp and is regarded as the first war of the modern era where magazine rifles, trenches and machine guns were deployed extensively. British losses topped 28 000 in a conflict that was supposed to take a few weeks but lasted three years.