History of South Africa podcast by Desmond Latham

193 - Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho

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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193 - Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho

Sun, 08 Sep 2024
192 - Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice

Sun, 01 Sep 2024
191 - Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened

Sun, 25 Aug 2024
190 - Episode 184 - A Fort Hare rout, “Vieux d’Afrique” Somerset and a British rethink about the role of chiefs in Africa

Sun, 18 Aug 2024
189 - Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos

Sun, 11 Aug 2024
188 - Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White

Sun, 04 Aug 2024
187 - Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga

Sun, 28 Jul 2024
186 - Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass

Sun, 21 Jul 2024
185 - Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor

Sun, 14 Jul 2024
184 - Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge

Sun, 07 Jul 2024
183 - Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn

Sun, 30 Jun 2024
182 - Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia

Sat, 22 Jun 2024
181 - Episode 175 - A whip around the world in 1849 and a wide-angle view of Cape Society

Sun, 16 Jun 2024
180 - Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

Sun, 09 Jun 2024
179 - Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter’s last trek

Sat, 01 Jun 2024
178 - Episode 172 - The Republic of Potchefstroom, Potgieter treks into Bapedi country and Mswati faces rebellion

Sun, 26 May 2024
177 - Episode 171 - Zwangendaba’s exodus from Pongola to Lake Tanganyika and the story of the Ngoni

Sun, 19 May 2024
176 - Episode 170 - Harry Smith returns as the conquering hero and humiliates Maqoma while translators muddle along

Sun, 12 May 2024
175 - Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest

Sat, 04 May 2024
174 - Episode 168 - Earl Grey and the irascible Sir Henry Pottinger leave their mark on South Africa

Sun, 28 Apr 2024
173 - Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything

Sun, 21 Apr 2024
172 - Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River

Sun, 14 Apr 2024
171 - Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation

Fri, 05 Apr 2024
170 - Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war

Sun, 31 Mar 2024
169 - Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty

Sun, 24 Mar 2024
168 - Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story

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

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