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Episode 218 - Lifestyle Update 1861 and an Ode to Landscape Motion Intensity and Physiology
We’re doing a little different thing today, having wondered our way through a few thousand years its time to reflect on a few things.
How did peopl…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 217 - Lovedale, amaXhosa Chiefs Languish on Robben Island and the American Civil War
A quick thank you to all those who’ve been donating towards the upkeep of this series, particularly Chereen and Gerhard, your continued support is ma…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 216 - Mpande and Cetshwayo’s Shakespearean Drama Continues, it’s all King Lear, Richard III and Macbeth
It’s episode 216 and we are lurching back to the north east, to Zululand.
The heat is building up, and the conflicted relationship between King Mpa…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 215 – Ostriches Trump Elephants in 1860 and John Dunn: Musket Trader Extraordinaire
Episode 215 has a rather grandiose title but let us stop for a second and take stock.
This southern land, swept by thunderstorms that appear as if b…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 214 - Booming Port Elizabeth, Cunning Cape Town, Indentured Indians and Quarrelling Republics
This is episode 214 and we’re going to probe the fascinating and these days, hidden history of Port Elizabeth or Gqeberha, a bit about indentured Ind…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 213 - Grey Mediates, Boshof Fulminates and Moshoeshoe Vacillates before the Treaty of Aliwal North
This is episode 213, and Sir George Grey, the Cape Governor was peering intensely at the Boer Republics to the north.
The Free Staters under Boshof…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 212 - The Basotho-Boer War of 1858 leads to a Burgher Backfire
Episode 212 it is - we’re cruising into 1858 but wait!
The sounds of gunfire!
Yes, it’s that old South African tune, war, set to the music of the …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 211 - “Native” Hut Taxes, Blackbirding and other Revelations of 1857
Episode 211 - the year is 1857 heading into 1858. Lots the talk about!
The original frontier republics and wildlands were being transformed - turnin…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 210 - Social Bandits on the Borderlands and other hybrid tales of Nomansland
This is episode 210 - Barbarians on the Borderlands - the 1857 Basotho Free State conundrum
Last episode we plumbed the depths of the amaZulu civil…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 209 - Cetshwayo attacks Mbuyazi at the Battle of Ndondakusuka where the Crocodiles Feast
IF you recall a few episodes back, 204 to be exact, we were introduced to the conflict between the sons of Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Cetshwayo kaMpande…
1 year, 5 months ago