History of South Africa podcast

231 Episodes

1. Episode 51 – The Third Frontier War ends and missionaries trek into a snake’s nest at Ngqika’s Great Place

   Published: 1/29/2022
2. Episode 50 – Brigadier General Vandeleur fires grapeshot at the amaXhosa setting off 80 years of warfare

   Published: 1/23/2022
3. Episode 49 – The Khoe War of 1799, Gerrit Owies is speared in the back and the Boers face the Hottentot Corps

   Published: 1/16/2022
4. Episode 48 – Petrus Pienaar shot dead on his Hantam farm in 1797 and the Afrikaaner rebellion goes into top gear

   Published: 1/9/2022
5. Episode 47 – Tales of the Hantam including the bandit van Zijl family and the indefatigable trekboer Elsie Visagie

   Published: 1/2/2022
6. Episode 46 – We meet the Afrikaaner Oorlams of Namaqualand and Griqua founder Adam Kok the First

   Published: 12/26/2021
7. Episode 45 – The ancient people of the Orange River islands, the Namaqualand Korana and the “Bastaards”

   Published: 12/19/2021
8. Episode 44 – Trekboer Coenraad de Buys marries amaXhosa Queen Nojoli aka Yese and Barrow exacts a confounded promise

   Published: 12/12/2021
9. Episode 43 – Lady Anne throws dinner parties as John Barrow and the Dragoons take a trip to Graaff-Reinet

   Published: 12/5/2021
10. Episode 42 – Lady Anne Barnard, Earl Macartney and the van Reenen meat bank of the 1790s

    Published: 11/25/2021
11. Episode 41 – The English take Cape Town, Americans flee and trekboer rebels tear down a flag

    Published: 11/21/2021
12. Episode 40 – The Second Frontier War and the Graaff-Reinet rebellion

    Published: 11/14/2021
13. Episode 39 – Rebel Coenraad de Buys, lover of Xhosa chief Ngqika’s mother and a preamble to the Second Frontier War

    Published: 11/7/2021
14. Episode 38 – The First Frontier War of 1781 and why the survivors of the Grosvenor were attacked by the amaXhosa

    Published: 10/31/2021
15. Episode 37 – How the amaXhosa waged war and Governor Van Plettenberg takes a trip to the Great Fish River

    Published: 10/24/2021
16. Episode 36 – The French and British fight over the Cape as bounty hunter Willem Prinsloo crosses the Fish River

    Published: 10/17/2021
17. Episode 35 – The Mthethwa and Ndwandwe flex their muscles in what eventually will become known as Zululand

    Published: 10/10/2021
18. Episode 34 – Trading and raiding, American whalers and the emergence of pre-Zulu chiefdoms in the East

    Published: 10/3/2021
19. Episode 33 – By 1771 Cape Town has a name and explorers begin arriving in droves

    Published: 9/26/2021
20. Episode 32 – An intermingling on the frontiers begins in earnest and a wide-angle view of the mid-to-late 18th C

    Published: 9/19/2021