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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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago