231 Episodes

  1. Episode 131 - Sharpened horns at the battle of eGabeni and the story of the Liebenberg girls

    Published: 8/13/2023

  2. Episode 130 - Piet Uys’ 1820 Settler Bible and the Qadi cut poles

    Published: 8/6/2023

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

    Published: 7/29/2023

  4. EPISODE 128 - Dingane smells blood and Retief leads the United Laagers

    Published: 7/23/2023

  5. Episode 127 - Predikant blues and Piet Retief’s manifesto

    Published: 7/16/2023

  6. Episode 126 - A Voortrekker commando takes revenge and the sedulous Susanna Smit

    Published: 7/7/2023

  7. Episode 125 - The Battle of Vegkop pits the Voortrekkers against the amaNdebele

    Published: 7/2/2023

  8. Episode 124 - The difference between Trekboers and Voortrekkers and the battle of Kopjeskraal

    Published: 6/25/2023

  9. Episode 123 - The Voortrekkers as Israelites and Mzilikazi is about to become Pharaoh

    Published: 6/17/2023

  10. Episode 122 - Lord Glenelg moulds a troublous history

    Published: 6/11/2023

  11. Episode 121 - Lang Hans Janse Van Rensburg’s fatal ivory obsession and the peho slippery snake

    Published: 6/4/2023

  12. Episode 120 - Ploughs in the Platberg, the BaSotho, the MaBuru, MaNyesemane and the BaKhothu

    Published: 5/28/2023

  13. Episode 119 - The saga of Moshoeshoe, how his grandfather was eaten, and mystical advisor Tsapi

    Published: 5/21/2023

  14. Episode 118 - Voortrekkers cross the Orange River carrying ancestral blood from the orient

    Published: 5/14/2023

  15. Episode 117 - The Sixth Frontier War ends in a draw and Trekboers like Louis Trichardt seek the promised land

    Published: 5/7/2023

  16. Episode 116 - A murder most foul and the British wilt as the guerrilla war weakens resolve

    Published: 4/30/2023

  17. Episode 115 - Hintsa becomes a hostage and the Mfengu become British

    Published: 4/23/2023

  18. Episode 114 - The British clamber up the slopes of the Amatolas chasing Xhosa ghosts and the mysterious Mfengu

    Published: 4/16/2023

  19. Episode 113 - Guerrilla warfare throws up a challenge while Jannie Hostage and Ou Blouberg plan their escape

    Published: 4/9/2023

  20. Episode 112 - Hand-to-hand fighting along the Great Fish River

    Published: 4/2/2023

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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.