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Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened
Cape Governor Harry Smith had made his escape from Fort Cox to King Williams’ Town, and was now hoping for help in the form of 3000 Zulu warriors.
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1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 184 - A Fort Hare rout, “Vieux d’Afrique” Somerset and a British rethink about the role of chiefs in Africa
This is episode 184 and we’re picking up our story on old year’s eve 1850. Last episode, we heard how Cape Governor Harry Smith was holed up in Fort …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos
Episode 183 it is, and we’re going to take stock as we enter 1851.
In war, truth is the first casualty. It’s a military maxim attributed to Aeschyl…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White
Welcome to the History of South Africa podcast with me your host, Des Latham, this is episode 182.
182 is a triangular number meaning it can be arr…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga
Shots fired! We’re with the amaXhosa under Maqoma and Sandile, and the British soldiers under Lieutenanat Colonel George Mackinnon, fighting on the s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass
Episode 180 it is then so let’s get cracking.
Or crackling, which was the atmosphere in late 1850 as Xhosaland and British Kaffraria was seized by …
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor
This is episode 179 and the prophet Mlanjeni is about to emerge. His story is one of the phenomenal tales of our land, he joined an already fairly lo…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge
The mid-nineteenth Century was like the calm before the storm with the discovery of diamonds a decade away, and then the wars between the Boers and B…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn
We’re plunging into the developments of the 1850s now and this is episode 177.
In numerology the digits 1 and 7 are significant,1 represents new begi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia
This is the period of the utilitarian liberal, not of the democrat, it’s 1850 and in the Cape, a newly ninted constitution had been drafted by the at…
1 year, 10 months ago