History of South Africa podcast
En podcast af Desmond Latham - Søndage
229 Episoder
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Episode 49 – The Khoe War of 1799, Gerrit Owies is speared in the back and the Boers face the Hottentot Corps
Udgivet: 16.1.2022 -
Episode 48 – Petrus Pienaar shot dead on his Hantam farm in 1797 and the Afrikaaner rebellion goes into top gear
Udgivet: 9.1.2022 -
Episode 47 – Tales of the Hantam including the bandit van Zijl family and the indefatigable trekboer Elsie Visagie
Udgivet: 2.1.2022 -
Episode 46 – We meet the Afrikaaner Oorlams of Namaqualand and Griqua founder Adam Kok the First
Udgivet: 26.12.2021 -
Episode 45 – The ancient people of the Orange River islands, the Namaqualand Korana and the “Bastaards”
Udgivet: 19.12.2021 -
Episode 44 – Trekboer Coenraad de Buys marries amaXhosa Queen Nojoli aka Yese and Barrow exacts a confounded promise
Udgivet: 12.12.2021 -
Episode 43 – Lady Anne throws dinner parties as John Barrow and the Dragoons take a trip to Graaff-Reinet
Udgivet: 5.12.2021 -
Episode 42 – Lady Anne Barnard, Earl Macartney and the van Reenen meat bank of the 1790s
Udgivet: 25.11.2021 -
Episode 41 – The English take Cape Town, Americans flee and trekboer rebels tear down a flag
Udgivet: 21.11.2021 -
Episode 40 – The Second Frontier War and the Graaff-Reinet rebellion
Udgivet: 14.11.2021 -
Episode 39 – Rebel Coenraad de Buys, lover of Xhosa chief Ngqika’s mother and a preamble to the Second Frontier War
Udgivet: 7.11.2021 -
Episode 38 – The First Frontier War of 1781 and why the survivors of the Grosvenor were attacked by the amaXhosa
Udgivet: 31.10.2021 -
Episode 37 – How the amaXhosa waged war and Governor Van Plettenberg takes a trip to the Great Fish River
Udgivet: 24.10.2021 -
Episode 36 – The French and British fight over the Cape as bounty hunter Willem Prinsloo crosses the Fish River
Udgivet: 17.10.2021 -
Episode 35 – The Mthethwa and Ndwandwe flex their muscles in what eventually will become known as Zululand
Udgivet: 10.10.2021 -
Episode 34 – Trading and raiding, American whalers and the emergence of pre-Zulu chiefdoms in the East
Udgivet: 3.10.2021 -
Episode 33 – By 1771 Cape Town has a name and explorers begin arriving in droves
Udgivet: 26.9.2021 -
Episode 32 – An intermingling on the frontiers begins in earnest and a wide-angle view of the mid-to-late 18th C
Udgivet: 19.9.2021 -
Episode 31 – Trade increases between Delagoa Bay and the Tswana and the Dutch Reformed Church makes its mark in the Cape
Udgivet: 10.9.2021 -
Episode 30 – Shipwrecked women and their Xhosa clan, the art of making amasi and the amatakati
Udgivet: 5.9.2021
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.
