History of South Africa podcast
En podcast af Desmond Latham - Søndage
228 Episoder
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Episode 168 - Earl Grey and the irascible Sir Henry Pottinger leave their mark on South Africa
Udgivet: 28.4.2024 -
Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything
Udgivet: 21.4.2024 -
Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River
Udgivet: 14.4.2024 -
Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation
Udgivet: 5.4.2024 -
Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war
Udgivet: 31.3.2024 -
Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty
Udgivet: 24.3.2024 -
Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story
Udgivet: 16.3.2024 -
Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses
Udgivet: 10.3.2024 -
Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle
Udgivet: 3.3.2024 -
Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843
Udgivet: 25.2.2024 -
Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma
Udgivet: 17.2.2024 -
Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban
Udgivet: 11.2.2024 -
Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach
Udgivet: 4.2.2024 -
Episode 155 - The Eastern Cape economy surges and the Americans visit Port Natal as tension rises
Udgivet: 27.1.2024 -
Episode 154 - The Swellekamp grifter and Captain Smith marches from the Umgazi River to Port Natal
Udgivet: 21.1.2024 -
Episode 153 - Dr Livingstone disembarks and Pretorius and Potgieter bury the hatchet
Udgivet: 14.1.2024 -
Episode 152 - The amaTola San raiders of the Drakensberg: Horses, plant meds and the Chacma Baboon
Udgivet: 7.1.2024 -
Episode 151 - The polymath Sir John Herschel, his free school system and other 1840 interconnections
Udgivet: 31.12.2023 -
Episode 150 - Dingana assassinated near Ghost Mountain and the cultural appropriation tale of the toyi-toyi
Udgivet: 24.12.2023 -
Episode 149 - Mpande defeats Dingana at the Battle of amaQongqo and Bhibhi the beautiful is killed
Udgivet: 17.12.2023
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.
