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Episode 208 - Believers vs Unbelievers, Ancestor Veneration and the Stupifying Logic of Global Millenarianism
Episode 208 it is .. where the steely grip of starvation takes hold of the amaXhosa nation by December 1856.
Self-induced, a response to years of c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 207 - A Moon of Wonders and Dangers, Supernatural Horsemen and HMS Geyser Turns Tail
We’re in the midst of 1856. This is the year lung sickness took hold of the country, and it’s effect was to push some people of the land over the edg…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 206 - Nongqawuse’s Bush of Ghosts, Mhlakaza’s Anglican Episode and Sarhili Goes to Gxarha
his is episode 206 - all fire and brimbstone, a horror show. The squeamish should gird their loins, prepare the poultices, polish your monocles and t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 205 - A Crimean/Russian Struggle Thread, Two Disabled Free Staters and a Surveyor Surge
Episode 205 of the series covers the A Russian Struggle Thread, Two Disabled Men in the Free State and a Surge in Surveyors.
Sprinkled with tales o…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 204 - Planet Earth 1855, the Regal Cetshwayo kaMpande and Natal Land Realities
Episode 204 - A quick whip around the globe in 1855 and Cetshwayo kaMpande makes his Regal Entrance.
First up, a quick thank you to Adi Badenhorst …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 203 - The Siege of Makapansgat and Misnomerclature
We’re picking up speed from here on, the fulcrum that was the mid-19th Century is passed and our story is developing quickly - this is episode 203 th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 202 - America’s Constitutional link to Boer Republics and a Cave Looms large
This is episode 202, the sounds you hear are the sounds made by wagons rolling across the veld — because we’re going to join the trekkers who’ve most…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 201 - Labour, Lovedale and Roads are all the Rage in 1854
This is episode 201. The sounds you’re hearing are those of roadworks, because South Africa is upgrading.
Quickly.
The arrival of governor sir Ge…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 200 - Sir George Grey’s Racial Amalgamation Thesis, its Maori Roots and Opiate Dependency
This is episode 200 - we have reached the double century milestone on our winding journey through the past.
When I began the series in 2021 after so…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 199 - Cognitive Dissonance, Desiccated Hags, a Trail of Tears and Ssehura Baartman
Episode 199, cognitive dissonance, desiccated hags, a Trail of Tears and Ssehura Baartman — Almost two hundred episodes exploring a land rich with so…
1 year, 8 months ago