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EPISODE 128 - Dingane smells blood and Retief leads the United Laagers
This is episode 128 and the bell is tolling for Mzilikazi Khumalo of the amaNdebele. We’ll also hear about the introduction of Maize by hunter-trader…
3 years ago
Episode 127 - Predikant blues and Piet Retief’s manifesto
When I started this series off a couple of years ago, it was a dive into the deep end — although it was the sixth podcast series I’d launched — this …
3 years ago
Episode 126 - A Voortrekker commando takes revenge and the sedulous Susanna Smit
The Voortrekkers had survived the trauma of the Battle of Vegkop, they had narrowly survived and as they huddled together in Thaga ‘Nchu a form of un…
3 years ago
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…
3 years, 1 month 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. …
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 months ago