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Episode 10 – Coree the Khoekhoe learns English and Jan van Riebeeck the surgeon is dispatched to the Cape.
The Dutch have eclipsed the Portuguese Far East maritime trade and are looking to exploit the Indies as effectively as possible. Back in Southern Africa, the KhoeKhoe have no idea what this century w…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 9 –KhoeKhoe power networks and the Dutch create the VOC charter company
IT was only in 1610 that the Dutch discovered the advantages of sailing east from the Cape before swinging north to reach the hub of their trading network in Java. As a result, contacts between the K…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 8 - The San art of the Apocalypse, a Dutch maritime revolution and Sir Francis Drake lauds the ‘fairest Cape’
So by the early 1500s Portugal controlled the major ports along northern Mozambique and into modern day Kenya all the way up to Mombasa. However, they did not seek to take over the land so to speak –…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 7 – Vasco de Gama reports African dogs also bark and the demise of Great Zimbabwe
We heard last episode how Portuguese explorer Bartolemeu Dias had rounded the Cape and landed at Mossel Bay in November 1488. He was the first person to sail around the continent to the South and his…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 6 - Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe, the first Sotho/Tswana and Nguni and a bit of Bartolomeu Dias
As we heard last episode Mapungubwe emerged from the increased trade between central south Africa and the East Coast seaboard including ivory, skins and eventually, gold around 1000AD.
Unlike areas…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 5 - The Mapungubwe empire emerges from Indian Ocean trade networks in southern Africa
The distinction between the eastern and well-watered part of the country with summer rainfall and good soils, and the more arid western region with its mainly winter rainfall is critical to understan…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 4 - Pottery and ivory trade between 250AD and 1000AD as farmers fan out over the coastal lowlands
This is episode 4 and we’re at the point where the first farmers arrived in Southern Africa 2000 years ago. AS we now know, prior to this event, there was broad cultural continuity in the hunter-gath…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 3 – 6000 year-old hunter-gatherer ochre and the first Bantu farmers arrive in Southern Africa
This episode we’re moving forward into the early stone age as it’s known and much of our story covers the period after the last ice age which ended 10 000 years ago.
Prior to this the oceans had su…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2 - A scenic swoop through Southern Africa and the ice-age that almost caused human extinction
This is episode 2 and we’re continue our geostrophic tour around the beautiful landscape of Southern Africa after a brief geology excursion in episode 1.
Like the rest of Africa south of the Sahara,…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
A Geology excursion and Southern African pre-history – wealth hidden in ancient rocks
This is episode one of what is going to be a fairly lengthy series which by could extend over more than three years as we burrow deeply into a truly unique part of planet earth.
Each podcast will t…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago