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Episode 35 – The Mthethwa and Ndwandwe flex their muscles in what eventually will become known as Zululand
This is episode 35 and we’re going to focus on the forerunners of the Zulu – the Mthethwa and Ndwandwe, the Qwabe and how they emerged in the region …
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 34 – Trading and raiding, American whalers and the emergence of pre-Zulu chiefdoms in the East
This is episode 34 and we’re going to take a close look at what was going on in the region bounded by the Orange River, the Kalahari Desert and the I…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 33 – By 1771 Cape Town has a name and explorers begin arriving in droves
This is episode 33 and we’re focusing on the Cape after spending last episode partly in Xhosaland.
By 1771 the inn on the sea – the town in Table B…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 32 – An intermingling on the frontiers begins in earnest and a wide-angle view of the mid-to-late 18th C
This is episode 32 and we’re swinging back to the Cape frontier through the last few decades of the 18th Century.
I am going to thoroughly probe th…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 31 – Trade increases between Delagoa Bay and the Tswana and the Dutch Reformed Church makes its mark in the Cape
This is episode 31 and we’ll now take a broader look at what was going on across southern Africa after a few episodes peering closely at the northern…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 30 – Shipwrecked women and their Xhosa clan, the art of making amasi and the amatakati
This is episode 30 and we’re covering the mid-18th Century, including tales of shipwrecked sailors, the art of making amasi and dealing with the amat…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 29 – Murder, massacre and pacification of the Roodezand Khoi while settler rebel Barbier meets a grisly end.
This is episode 29 and we’re dealing with the pacification of the Khoisan in 1739. The Bushman War of that year had broken out as we’ve heard over re…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 28 – The Bushman War of 1739 and the role of French outlaw Estienne Barbier
This is episode 28, the Bushman War of 1739. Last episode we heard about the growing number of clashes reported in the run up to this full-scale war …
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 27 – The slaughtering in the Sandveld and the causes of the 1739 frontier war
This is episode 27 and we’re dealing with the period in the first half of 1700 – give or take a decade.
Last episode we heard how the TrekBoer econ…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 26 – The Boers begin expanding across the Cape frontier
As we heard last episode, the direction of trekker expansion was largely a function of the nature of the terrain, along with the availability of wate…
4 years, 8 months ago