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Episode 68 – Stockenström’s anguish, Dingiswayo and the beginning of the era of blood, power and iron
Episode 68 – Stockenström’s anguish, Dingiswayo and the beginning of the era of blood, power and iron

We heard last episode how the fourth Frontier War of 1811/12 had been a short sharp affair and the anger bubbling away amongst amaXhosa leadership ab…

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Episode 67 – Wardoctor Nxele begins to see visions as he synthesises amaXhosa religion with Christianity
Episode 67 – Wardoctor Nxele begins to see visions as he synthesises amaXhosa religion with Christianity

Graham’s war in the Eastern Cape had sent the amaXhosa hurrying eastwards over the Great Fish River, with Ndlambe settling near where East London is …

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Episode 66 – The Fourth Frontier war bursts into flame, Chungwa is shot and Stockenstrom is assegai'd
Episode 66 – The Fourth Frontier war bursts into flame, Chungwa is shot and Stockenstrom is assegai'd

This is episode 66 – it’s late 1811 and Sir John Cradock has just dispatched Lieutenant Colonel John Graham into the eastern Cape frontier to rid the…

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Episode 65 – Graham launches his terror campaign in the Zuurveld and Chungwa of the Gqunukhwebe is in his sights
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 …

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Episode 64 – The amaXhosa “strolling” days are numbered as Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock arrives
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…

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Episode 63 – Shaka’s isicoco regulation, a “she” rebellion and Lieutenant Colonel Collins collects intel
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…

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Episode 62 – Dingiswayo and Shaka of the amaMthethwa, Ndlambe and Ngqika of the amaRharhabe
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 …

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Episode 61 – British Governor Lord Caledon launches the pass law system in the Cape in 1808
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…

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Episode 60 – The Battle of Blaauberg in 1806 and an American landdrost takes control of the Eastern Cape
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…

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Episode 59 – Senzangakhona and his son Shaka, Janssens has a plan and American sailors ogle the eastern Cape
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…

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