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Episode 115 - Hintsa becomes a hostage and the Mfengu become British
It's early 1835 and Cape Governor Benjamin D’urban an his 2000 men were winding their way through the AMatola mountains, searching for Maqoma and Thy…
3 years ago
Episode 114 - The British clamber up the slopes of the Amatolas chasing Xhosa ghosts and the mysterious Mfengu
We’re going to hear about a man called John Ayliff - a man who has gone down in the annals of South African history about as mixed as a box of smarti…
3 years ago
Episode 113 - Guerrilla warfare throws up a challenge while Jannie Hostage and Ou Blouberg plan their escape
It’s early 1835 and globally, quite a few fascinating things are going on. For one, America’s National Debt was Zero dollars - for the first and last…
3 years ago
Episode 112 - Hand-to-hand fighting along the Great Fish River
The Sixth frontier war was ablaze and now Harry Smith was in Grahamstown rearranging the military furniture.
He wasn’t there for long. As a man of a…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 111 - Harry Smith arrives in panic-stricken Grahamstown in January 1835 and stiffens settler spines
ON December 21st 1834 at least ten thousand warriors under Maqoma and Thyali swept all before them as they raided deep into the Cape colony, across a…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 110 - Sir Harry Smith, his petite guerriere espagnole Lady Smith and the revenge of the amaXhosa
The Sixth Frontier war had started on 21st December 1834 and this would be a dirty affair - a calamity for the amaXhosa.
When it began Hintsa the X…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 109 - Maqoma’s war begins as the amaXhosa invade the Colony in December 1834
It’s December 1834 - the Second of December to be more precise. The British had just emancipated the slaves at the Cape, although real freedom was st…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 108 - Mzilikazi empties the lower Vaal, Sir Benjamin D’Urban arrives and slaves are emancipated
A new Governor was in town, the Cape Sheriff, and he was another Peninsular Campaign Veteran called Sir Benjamin D’Urban.
In July 1832 Frontier mili…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 107 - Dr Andrew Smith, his mysterious Dingane expedition and a bit of XGaoXna- Knysna
The small settlement of Port Natal had hardly grown by 1830. Dingane had moved his ikhanda which he named uMgungundlovu to the eMakhosini valley, clo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 106 - Rustling along the Amatolas in 1830 and Dingane’s black liver
So here we are - 1830.
Maqoma had been ejected from his beloved region below the Amatola mountains of the Eastern Cape, to be replaced by the new K…
3 years, 2 months ago