History of South Africa podcast
Een podcast door Desmond Latham - Zondagen
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Episode 171 - Zwangendaba’s exodus from Pongola to Lake Tanganyika and the story of the Ngoni
Gepubliceerd: 19-5-2024 -
Episode 170 - Harry Smith returns as the conquering hero and humiliates Maqoma while translators muddle along
Gepubliceerd: 12-5-2024 -
Episode 169 - The Kat River Settlement seethes and the inglorious treachery of Sandile’s arrest
Gepubliceerd: 4-5-2024 -
Episode 168 - Earl Grey and the irascible Sir Henry Pottinger leave their mark on South Africa
Gepubliceerd: 28-4-2024 -
Episode 167 - Maitland dithers, Stockenstrom sallies forth into the Transkei and biblical storms change everything
Gepubliceerd: 21-4-2024 -
Episode 166 - Colonel Lindsay lashes a local lad, Fort Peddie attacked and the Battle of Gwangqa River
Gepubliceerd: 14-4-2024 -
Episode 165 - Sandile ambushes a British column, Captain Bambrick’s skull and Somerset’s humiliation
Gepubliceerd: 5-4-2024 -
Episode 164 - British sappers cross Block Drift into Xhosaland setting off a chain of events on the eve of war
Gepubliceerd: 31-3-2024 -
Episode 163 - British engineers build forts and semaphores while disabled chief Mgolombane Sandile signs a treaty
Gepubliceerd: 24-3-2024 -
Episode 162 - The 1845 Battle of Swartkoppies, Divide and Rule and a Bloemfontein origin story
Gepubliceerd: 16-3-2024 -
Episode 161 - Moshoeshoe signs a Treaty then collects gunpowder and horses
Gepubliceerd: 10-3-2024 -
Episode 160 - A tour of Philippolis, an 1844 update, the Great Guano discovery and the Merino sheep miracle
Gepubliceerd: 3-3-2024 -
Episode 159 - Boer women as handmaidens to history and the swirling social dust storms in TransOrangia circa 1843
Gepubliceerd: 25-2-2024 -
Episode 158 - Venda kingdoms and the Lemba Yemeni enigma
Gepubliceerd: 17-2-2024 -
Episode 157 - Dick King and Ndongeni Ka Xoki’s epic ride leads another d’Urban to Durban
Gepubliceerd: 11-2-2024 -
Episode 156 - The Battle of Congella leaves 34 British soldiers dead on a moonlit Durban beach
Gepubliceerd: 4-2-2024 -
Episode 155 - The Eastern Cape economy surges and the Americans visit Port Natal as tension rises
Gepubliceerd: 27-1-2024 -
Episode 154 - The Swellekamp grifter and Captain Smith marches from the Umgazi River to Port Natal
Gepubliceerd: 21-1-2024 -
Episode 153 - Dr Livingstone disembarks and Pretorius and Potgieter bury the hatchet
Gepubliceerd: 14-1-2024 -
Episode 152 - The amaTola San raiders of the Drakensberg: Horses, plant meds and the Chacma Baboon
Gepubliceerd: 7-1-2024
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.
