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Episode 105 - The Kat River Settlement of 1829 and how Maqoma was evicted
Last we heard about the attack on the Ngwane at Mbholompo west of Umtata, and the destruction of Matiwane’s raiders - sending him home back to Zulula…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 104 - Matiwane’s Ngwane massacred at Mbholompo and Hintsa's ama-Bulu
South Africa’s history is peppered with chaos and warfare, perhaps more so than is apparent in the modern period. It is fairly difficult to explain h…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 103 - Barend Barends battered and the men in black on the frontier
Last episode we heard how Jan Bloem and Kora leader Haip had launched a raid on Mzilikazi’s Ndebele people arraigned along the southern reaches of th…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 102 - Tales of the Trans Vaal and how Magaliesberg got its name
It’s time to delve deeply into the other Ndebele, then what happened when Mzilikazi arrived in the area known as the Trans Vaal - across the Vaal, wi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 101 - Mnkabayi dresses like a man and Dingane drowns his brother
Port Natal was steeped in fear and loathing in late 1828 follow in Shaka’s assassination on the 24th September 1828 which had thrown the traders into…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 100 - Ordinance 50 shock, Dr John’s mission and Wesleyans vs polygamy
For my listeners who’ve lasted a century of podcasts, thank you folks! The series has far exceeded my expectation when it was launched I thought perh…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 99 – Shaka assassinated by muddle-headed brothers Dingane and Mhlangana
First we pick up the point where James Saunders King made his way back to Port Natal following his failed diplomacy on Shaka’s behalf – the result wo…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 98 – Nandi dies, Zulu diplomats in the Cape & Shaka raids the amaMpondo
With the defeat of the Ndwandwe Shaka had moved to KwaDukuza near the Mvoti River, about 80km from Port Natal – a day and a half’s journey – or two i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 97 – Shaka shifts South, Mzilikazi raids West and Fynn becomes Zulu
We kick off this episode with Henry Francis Fynn, the trader who’d made his home in Port Natal and was part of a group of Englishmen who’d fought wit…
3 years, 4 months ago
Episode 96 – A “bipolar” Shaka hunts down and exterminates Sikhunyane’s Ndwandwe
We’re dealing with the period 1826 to 1828 and southern Africa was a rich patchwork of expanding trekboers, Shaka setting up his empire in Zululand, …
3 years, 4 months ago