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175 - Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest

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.

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175 - Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest

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173 - Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything

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172 - Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River

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171 - Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation

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Sat, 16 Mar 2024
167 - Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses

Sun, 10 Mar 2024
166 - Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle

Sun, 03 Mar 2024
165 - Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843

Sun, 25 Feb 2024
164 - Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma

Sat, 17 Feb 2024
163 - Episode 6 - Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, the first Sotho/Tswana and Nguni and a bit of Bartolomeu Dias

Sat, 20 Mar 2021
162 - Episode 5 - The Mapungubwe empire emerges from Indian Ocean trade networks in southern Africa

Sun, 14 Mar 2021
161 - Episode 4 - Pottery and ivory trade between 250AD and 1000AD as farmers fan out over the coastal lowlands

Sun, 07 Mar 2021
160 - Episode 3 – 6000 year-old hunter-gatherer ochre and the first Bantu farmers arrive in Southern Africa

Sun, 28 Feb 2021
159 - Episode 2 - A scenic swoop through Southern Africa and the ice-age that almost caused human extinction

Sun, 21 Feb 2021
158 - A Geology excursion and Southern African pre-history – wealth hidden in ancient rocks

Sun, 14 Feb 2021
157 - Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban

Sun, 11 Feb 2024
156 - Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach

Sun, 04 Feb 2024
155 - Episode 155 - The Eastern Cape economy surges and the Americans visit Port Natal as tension rises

Sat, 27 Jan 2024
154 - Episode 154 - The Swellekamp grifter and Captain Smith marches from the Umgazi River to Port Natal

Sun, 21 Jan 2024
153 - Episode 153 - Dr Livingstone disembarks and Pretorius and Potgieter bury the hatchet

Sun, 14 Jan 2024
152 - Episode 152 - The amaTola San raiders of the Drakensberg: Horses, plant meds and the Chacma Baboon

Sun, 07 Jan 2024
151 - Episode 151 - The polymath Sir John Herschel, his free school system and other 1840 interconnections

Sun, 31 Dec 2023
150 - Episode 150 - Dingana assassinated near Ghost Mountain and the cultural appropriation tale of the toyi-toyi

Sun, 24 Dec 2023
149 - Episode 149 - Mpande defeats Dingana at the Battle of amaQongqo and Bhibhi the beautiful is killed

Sun, 17 Dec 2023
148 - Episode 148 - The AmaZulu routed by amaSwazi Widow Bird warriors and Mpande’s exodus

Thu, 07 Dec 2023
147 - Episode 147 - Coloured enters the lexicon in 1838 as Captain Jervis reports his coal find

Sun, 03 Dec 2023
146 - Episode 146 - The Battle of oPathe where Bhongoza and Hans Dons earn oral history stripes

Sun, 26 Nov 2023
145 - Episode 145 - The seminal Battle on the Ncome known as Blood River

Sat, 18 Nov 2023
144 - Episode 144 - Mpande evades Dingane’s assassination plot, the British seize Durban and Pretorius plans a covenant

Sat, 11 Nov 2023
143 - Episode 143 - The World in 1838, New Veld Tech and Plough Enhancements

Sun, 05 Nov 2023
142 - Episode 142 - Moshoeshoe the beard-shearer and the complex theological soup of the BaSotho

Sun, 29 Oct 2023
141 - Episode 141 — An ode to the Orange River and San spoor blows in the wind

Sat, 21 Oct 2023
140 - Episode 140 - High Noon at Gatslaager & Mzilikazi barges into the Batswana

Sun, 15 Oct 2023
139 - Episode 139 - The Battle of Thukela/Dlokweni, Durban is sacked and the Republiek Natalia proclaimed

Sat, 07 Oct 2023
138 - Episode 138 - The yin and yang of Stretch and Bowker and the Grand Army of Natal marches again

Sun, 01 Oct 2023
137 - Episode 137 - The Vlugkommando of April 1838 and a hard rain continues to fall

Sun, 24 Sep 2023
136 - Episode 136 - The place of weeping earns its name and the“Grand Army of Natal” marches off

Sun, 17 Sep 2023
135 - Episode 135 - The Zulu army overruns the Voortrekkers along the Bloukrans and Bushman’s River

Sat, 09 Sep 2023
134 - Episode 134 - Lightning kills 12 Boer horses then the wizards die

Sun, 03 Sep 2023
133 - Episode 133 - Umkhandlu long thumb nails and tales of ill-gotten grain

Sat, 26 Aug 2023
132 - Episode 132 - Piet Retief rides into Natal and land is on the agenda

Sun, 20 Aug 2023
131 - Episode 131 - Sharpened horns at the battle of eGabeni and the story of the Liebenberg girls

Sun, 13 Aug 2023
130 - Episode 130 - Piet Uys’ 1820 Settler Bible and the Qadi cut poles

Sun, 06 Aug 2023
129 - EPISODE 129 - Lindley blesses the Boers, a sweep of 1837 and Stockenström’s bitter end

Sat, 29 Jul 2023
128 - EPISODE 128 - Dingane smells blood and Retief leads the United Laagers

Sun, 23 Jul 2023
127 - Episode 127 - Predikant blues and Piet Retief’s manifesto

Sun, 16 Jul 2023
126 - Episode 126 - A Voortrekker commando takes revenge and the sedulous Susanna Smit

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

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