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Episode 45 – The ancient people of the Orange River islands, the Namaqualand Korana and the “Bastaards”
This is episode 45 and it’s time to turn our attention to Namaqualand.
This is an area which is not spoken of very often, the wild northern frontie…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 44 – Trekboer Coenraad de Buys marries amaXhosa Queen Nojoli aka Yese and Barrow exacts a confounded promise
This is episode 44 and we continue to travel about the Zuurveld and beyond with Englishman John Barrow.
Remember he’d arrived in Graaff-Reinet with …
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 43 – Lady Anne throws dinner parties as John Barrow and the Dragoons take a trip to Graaff-Reinet
This is episode 43 and we’re dealing with the arrival of the English at the Cape.
As you know, the Peninsular had become more important in the eyes …
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 42 – Lady Anne Barnard, Earl Macartney and the van Reenen meat bank of the 1790s
This is episode 42 and the English have just seized the Cape.
Remember at the time they were in a world war with the French and revolutionary fervo…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 41 – The English take Cape Town, Americans flee and trekboer rebels tear down a flag
This is episode 41 and we’re dealing with two main things – firstly the shift in power amongst the Xhosa at the end of the 18th Century, then the arr…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 40 – The Second Frontier War and the Graaff-Reinet rebellion
This is episode 40 and we’re dealing with the Second Frontier War. The Zuurveld Boers were indignant at the reluctance of the distant government of t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 39 – Rebel Coenraad de Buys, lover of Xhosa chief Ngqika’s mother and a preamble to the Second Frontier War
This is episode 39 and we’re going to meet one of the country’s most incredible characters who’s activities on the frontier in the late 1700s were to…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 38 – The First Frontier War of 1781 and why the survivors of the Grosvenor were attacked by the amaXhosa
This is episode 38 and we’re focusing on the first war between the isiXhosa and the settlers which took place in 1781. Rharhabe had proposed an allia…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 37 – How the amaXhosa waged war and Governor Van Plettenberg takes a trip to the Great Fish River
This is episode 37 and we’re continuing the saga of late 18th Century Xhosa kingdoms.
By late in the 18th Century, the Zuurveld was home to small gr…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 36 – The French and British fight over the Cape as bounty hunter Willem Prinsloo crosses the Fish River
This is episode 36 and its time to return to Xhosaland. Before we do that, let’s step back a little and consider the effect of action beyond Africa t…
4 years, 6 months ago