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Episode 65 – Graham launches his terror campaign in the Zuurveld and Chungwa of the Gqunukhwebe is in his sights
This is episode 65 and we’ll spend time with the amaXhosa, and hear about Lieutenant Colonel John Graham. I mentioned last episode that he was going …
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 64 – The amaXhosa “strolling” days are numbered as Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock arrives
This is episode 64 and we’ve rejoined Lieutenant colonel Richard Collins and Governor Caledon in Cape Town. If you remember last episode we heard abo…
4 years ago
Episode 63 – Shaka’s isicoco regulation, a “she” rebellion and Lieutenant Colonel Collins collects intel
Last episode we spent some time back in Zululand hearing about the amaMthethwa, the amaNdwandwe, the amaHlubi, the amaQwabe and that tiny little chie…
4 years ago
Episode 62 – Dingiswayo and Shaka of the amaMthethwa, Ndlambe and Ngqika of the amaRharhabe
We’re hustling towards the year 1807. If you remember last episode, we heard that the young Shaka had grown up in amaZulu chief Senzangakona’s house …
4 years ago
Episode 61 – British Governor Lord Caledon launches the pass law system in the Cape in 1808
This is episode 61 and the English are back in Cape Town.
This was a momentous moment for southern Africa. Gone was the VOC and its chaos, in its pl…
4 years ago
Episode 60 – The Battle of Blaauberg in 1806 and an American landdrost takes control of the Eastern Cape
Its January 1806 and the British have dispatched a fleet of 61 vessels to Cape Town under the charge of Commodore Home Popham to seize the port. As y…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 59 – Senzangakhona and his son Shaka, Janssens has a plan and American sailors ogle the eastern Cape
The Batavians trying to setup a formal long-term administration that was rooted inside the Cape rather than in Europe. Unfortunately, their tenure wa…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 58 – A dilemma of principle as religious freedom and a reformed government are introduced in 1803
For on 18th May 1803, ten days after Janssens had reached Algoa Bay on his long journey overland to the frontier from Cape Town, Malta in the Mediter…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 57 – The Batavian Republic takes over the Cape in 1803 with a “Methods in dealing with Savages” handbook
Last episode we dealt with the arrival of the new representatives of the Batavian Republic who’d come to take over the Cape Colony from the British. …
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 56 – The burghers suffer their worst setback since 1652 as the Third Frontier War reignites in 1801
Last episode we heard about Doctor Somerville’s expedition to Dithakong which was interesting but a failure in terms of its main aim. That was to sec…
4 years, 1 month ago