The Anglo-Boer War

A podcast by Desmond Latham

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143 Episodes

  1. Episode 123 - Major Vallentin eats his last lunch & General Botha fights his last Transvaal battle

    Published: 1/26/2020
  2. Episode 122 - The dishonourable ex-fiancé Karel de Kock & the Witwatersrand Rifle Regiment

    Published: 1/19/2020
  3. Episode 121 - – The Kenyan Trek Boers of Eldoret & Smuts goes swimming

    Published: 1/12/2020
  4. Episode 120 - Reitz meets a Swiss Family Robinson & Kitchener rethinks the Concentration Camp system

    Published: 1/5/2020
  5. Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin

    Published: 12/29/2019
  6. Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present

    Published: 12/22/2019
  7. Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message

    Published: 12/14/2019
  8. Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion

    Published: 12/8/2019
  9. Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens

    Published: 12/1/2019
  10. Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed

    Published: 11/24/2019
  11. Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki

    Published: 11/17/2019
  12. Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death

    Published: 11/10/2019
  13. Episode 111 - Lord Kitchener and the Brat hunt a starling while de Wet broods at Blijdskap

    Published: 11/3/2019
  14. Episode 110 - General Buller flayed by the press as Botha pulverises Benson at Bakenlaagte.

    Published: 10/27/2019
  15. Episode 109 - Borrius loses an eye and Smuts is forced to split his force

    Published: 10/20/2019
  16. Episode 108 - The Commando laid low by "Hottentots Bread" within striking distance of Port Elizabeth

    Published: 10/13/2019
  17. Episode 107 - Churchill doubts Kitchener & Colonel Scobell butchers Lotter in a sheep shed

    Published: 10/6/2019
  18. Episode 106 - The 17th Lancers survived the Charge of the Light Brigade but not the Rijk Section

    Published: 9/29/2019
  19. Episode 105 - General Louis Botha stumbles & sleet causes chaos for Jan Smuts

    Published: 9/22/2019
  20. Episode 104 - A hunchback leads Smuts to safety & Captain Gough's fatal cavalry charge

    Published: 9/15/2019

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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.