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Episode 125 - The Battle of Vegkop pits the Voortrekkers against the amaNdebele
Last episode, we heard how the battle of Kopjeskraal near Parys had ended, where Mzilikazi’s second in command Kaliphi and his force of 500 men had b…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 124 - The difference between Trekboers and Voortrekkers and the battle of Kopjeskraal
Last episode we ended with Hendrick Potgieter and Sarel Cilliers riding to try and find a route to Delagoa Bay, and meeting up with Louis Trichardt. …
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 123 - The Voortrekkers as Israelites and Mzilikazi is about to become Pharaoh
Just a quick thank you to the folks at East coast Radio, Diane and DW, for promoting this podcast with listeners to that station, I’m honoured to hav…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 122 - Lord Glenelg moulds a troublous history
Let’s take another look at the push factors driving the Voortrekkers away from their frontier farms. Most had lived on the margins of society for gen…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 121 - Lang Hans Janse Van Rensburg’s fatal ivory obsession and the peho slippery snake
Moshoeshoe’s elder sons were now at a site that was to be named Moriah, 24 miles south of Maseru, chosen by the two French missionaries Arbousset and…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 120 - Ploughs in the Platberg, the BaSotho, the MaBuru, MaNyesemane and the BaKhothu
We join Moshoeshoe just before the arrival of the trekkers, as he sought to build his political power once the Ngwane and other roving bands had been…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 119 - The saga of Moshoeshoe, how his grandfather was eaten, and mystical advisor Tsapi
The story of south Africa is incomplete without scrutinising the kingdom of Lesotho, not only because geographic location means the mountains are par…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 118 - Voortrekkers cross the Orange River carrying ancestral blood from the orient
Hark! What sound breaks the inscrutable silence of the immense African veld?
Dozens of wagons, which would become hundreds.
Trundling along at ab…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 117 - The Sixth Frontier War ends in a draw and Trekboers like Louis Trichardt seek the promised land
There was a great exodus of some people, the movement of the people into the interior of South Africa - a moment that was going to reverberate all th…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 116 - A murder most foul and the British wilt as the guerrilla war weakens resolve
April 1835 is passing swiftly, and still no sign of the 75 000 head of cattle demanded by the British of the amaXhosa - Hintsa remains a hostage of B…
3 years ago