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Episode 15 – The first Khoe-Dutch war of 1659-60, van Riebeeck lays out a mini-frontier and horses in the Cape.
This is episode 15 and we’re looking at the first Khoe-Dutch war of 1659-1660.
Up to now the relationship between the Dutch and the various Khoe tr…
4 years, 11 months ago
Episode 14 – The first settlers begin farming on Khoekhoe grazing land, Doman plans an uprising and slaves in the Cape.
This is episode 14 and the first settlers are about to make their way out of the Dutch fort at the Cape after being allocated land to plant their gar…
4 years, 11 months ago
Episode 13 – Harry the Strandloper makes off with the Dutch herd and van Riebeeck orders a new garden at Rondebosch
This is episode 13 and we’re covering the period between 1652 and 1657. These five years saw the establishment of the Dutch’s refreshment station at …
4 years, 11 months ago
Episode 12 – Jan van Riebeeck’s refreshment station Khoekhoe blues
This is episode 12 and we’re at the point where Jan van Riebeeck and 88 men and women had setup the refreshment station to provide fruit, vegetables …
5 years ago
Episode 11 – Jan van Riebeeck sets up the Tavern of the Seas and the amaXhosa/Khoekhoe relationship develops
This is episode 11 and it’s all about Jan van Riebeeck arrival in 1652 and the amaXhosa/KhoeKhoe relationship.
South Africa’s modern community is a…
5 years ago
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 Afr…
5 years 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 ne…
5 years 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, the…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 1 month ago