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Episode 286 - German Mercenary von Brandis formally Proclaims Johannesburg
Welcome back to the history of South Africa podcast with me your host, Des Latham.
This is episode 286 - Johannesburg is proclaimed but the flow of …
1 day, 5 hours ago
Episode 285 - The Three Georges Gold Saga and a Bottle of Mampoer Vignette
Farming dominated the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek economy in the 1880s, even after gold was discovered in the eastern Transvaal but that was about to c…
1 week, 1 day ago
Episode 284 - Australians and the Struben Brothers Hunt Gold on the Ridge of White Waters
Gold sends a shiver through the spine of the adventurer, the merest hint drives men to acts of extreme bravery, or stupidity. Moderate men and women …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 283 - Warren’s Great North Road Balloon and Telegraph Escapade
Welcome back to the History of South Africa podcast with me your host, Des Latham. Episode 283 and it’s 1885.
And boy! Do we have a plethora of hap…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 282 - The Scramble for Africa Berlin Conference of 1884/5 and Lüderitz becomes German
There are many correlations and connections in this episode, so hang on tight as we toboggan down the slippery slopes of history bumping into all man…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 281 - The Boers anoint Dinizulu King of the Zulus
Cetshwayo had sought refuge in Nkandla as his arch enemy, Zibhebhu, turned his attention to the royalists living along the Zululand Coastal plain. So…
1 month ago
Episode 280 - Zibhebhu’s Mandlakazi shatter Cetshwayo’s uSuthu setting off a Zulu Civil War
On the afternoon of 10th January 1883, King Cetshwayo kaMpande climbed off a skiff and onto the beach at Port Dunford, surviving the heavy and powerf…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 279 - Dean Williams and Bishop Merriman compete for Anglican Souls as De Villiers Graaff Ponders
We’re up to the early 1880s where world events are intersecting in various ways with southern African events.
The mere ratification of the Pretoria …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 278 - The South African Suez Canal, Stellaland and Goshen and James Honey's Murder Most Foul
In 1882, the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that π was transcendental: it cannot be reduced to a tidy equation, never captured i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 277 - Cetshwayo visits Queen Victoria and the Victorian link between Afghanistan and Zululand
When Cetshwayo kaMpande was captured after the Anglo-Zulu War, he was ferried to Cape Town and on to Robben Island. His countenance was one of dignit…
2 months ago