231 Episodes

  1. Episode 191 - Trekkers' Bob-and-Weave Politics, Meneer Van Der Kolff forges a signature and a library burns

    Published: 10/5/2024
  2. Episode 190 - The Birkenhead Drill 'Women and Children First’ tragedy and amaXhosa messages moving at the speed of light

    Published: 9/29/2024
  3. Episode 189 - Karl Marx at the Great Exhibition, Eyre's Great Cattle Patrol and Smith gets the boot

    Published: 9/22/2024
  4. Episode 188 - Hymns echo in the Waterkloof ravines as Khoekhoe snipers take aim at British officers

    Published: 9/15/2024
  5. Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho

    Published: 9/8/2024
  6. Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice

    Published: 9/1/2024
  7. Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened

    Published: 8/25/2024
  8. Episode 184 - A Fort Hare rout, “Vieux d’Afrique” Somerset and a British rethink about the role of chiefs in Africa

    Published: 8/18/2024
  9. Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos

    Published: 8/11/2024
  10. Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White

    Published: 8/4/2024
  11. Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga

    Published: 7/28/2024
  12. Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass

    Published: 7/21/2024
  13. Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor

    Published: 7/14/2024
  14. Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge

    Published: 7/7/2024
  15. Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn

    Published: 6/30/2024
  16. Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia

    Published: 6/22/2024
  17. Episode 175 - A whip around the world in 1849 and a wide-angle view of Cape Society

    Published: 6/16/2024
  18. Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

    Published: 6/9/2024
  19. Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter’s last trek

    Published: 6/1/2024
  20. Episode 172 - The Republic of Potchefstroom, Potgieter treks into Bapedi country and Mswati faces rebellion

    Published: 5/26/2024

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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.