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Episode 195 - Mpande’s Mswati beef, a bit about Reserves and Bantustans and a Lashing of Self Government
A quick note to the SA Podcaster’s Guild, thank you for the History podcast of the year silver award — I shared the honour with the 30 Years of Democ…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 194 - The Battle of Berea leads to an Anglo-Basotho Mutual Admiration Society
This is episode 194 and we’re marching towards Thaba Bosiu with Lieutenant General George Cathcart.
Or sitting on horseback among King Moshoeshoe’s…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 193: Guthrie’s 1852 Four-Colour Problem, Sports Schedules, Mobile Frequencies, AI, and the Battle of Berea
First off, congratulations to Gcina Mhlophe who is DStv’s content Creator podcaster of the year — I was so happy to shortlisted and incredibly happy …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 192 - The Sand River Convention, the Transvaal slash Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek dot co dot za
This is episode 192 and what a packed episode it is!
The Sand River Convention and the Battle of the Berea await. The former created a new state cal…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 191 - Trekkers' Bob-and-Weave Politics, Meneer Van Der Kolff forges a signature and a library burns
First off, some news!
This series has been selected as one of the five finalists for the DStv Content Creators podcast of the year awards which is t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 190 - The Birkenhead Drill 'Women and Children First’ tragedy and amaXhosa messages moving at the speed of light
Episode 190 is about the ocean, and a staggering event.
The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead off Gansbaai, south of Cape Town - and event which led to…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 189 - Karl Marx at the Great Exhibition, Eyre's Great Cattle Patrol and Smith gets the boot
1851 it is, and the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition too…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 188 - Hymns echo in the Waterkloof ravines as Khoekhoe snipers take aim at British officers
We’re into an extremely tough time in our past, 1851, and about to hear about the struggle for control of an area of the Amatolas that the Boers had …
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho
This is episode 187 - it’s 1851. Time to take stock of what’s going on across southern Africa which as you know was in the throes of the 8th Frontier…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice
Episode 186 it is - we’re taking a closer look at theological suppositions, ecclesiastical superstitions, magic and myth.
Some housekeeping - first…
1 year, 8 months ago