231 Episodo

  1. Episode 51 – The Third Frontier War ends and missionaries trek into a snake’s nest at Ngqika’s Great Place

    Publicado: 29/1/2022
  2. Episode 50 – Brigadier General Vandeleur fires grapeshot at the amaXhosa setting off 80 years of warfare

    Publicado: 23/1/2022
  3. Episode 49 – The Khoe War of 1799, Gerrit Owies is speared in the back and the Boers face the Hottentot Corps

    Publicado: 16/1/2022
  4. Episode 48 – Petrus Pienaar shot dead on his Hantam farm in 1797 and the Afrikaaner rebellion goes into top gear

    Publicado: 9/1/2022
  5. Episode 47 – Tales of the Hantam including the bandit van Zijl family and the indefatigable trekboer Elsie Visagie

    Publicado: 2/1/2022
  6. Episode 46 – We meet the Afrikaaner Oorlams of Namaqualand and Griqua founder Adam Kok the First

    Publicado: 26/12/2021
  7. Episode 45 – The ancient people of the Orange River islands, the Namaqualand Korana and the “Bastaards”

    Publicado: 19/12/2021
  8. Episode 44 – Trekboer Coenraad de Buys marries amaXhosa Queen Nojoli aka Yese and Barrow exacts a confounded promise

    Publicado: 12/12/2021
  9. Episode 43 – Lady Anne throws dinner parties as John Barrow and the Dragoons take a trip to Graaff-Reinet

    Publicado: 5/12/2021
  10. Episode 42 – Lady Anne Barnard, Earl Macartney and the van Reenen meat bank of the 1790s

    Publicado: 25/11/2021
  11. Episode 41 – The English take Cape Town, Americans flee and trekboer rebels tear down a flag

    Publicado: 21/11/2021
  12. Episode 40 – The Second Frontier War and the Graaff-Reinet rebellion

    Publicado: 14/11/2021
  13. Episode 39 – Rebel Coenraad de Buys, lover of Xhosa chief Ngqika’s mother and a preamble to the Second Frontier War

    Publicado: 7/11/2021
  14. Episode 38 – The First Frontier War of 1781 and why the survivors of the Grosvenor were attacked by the amaXhosa

    Publicado: 31/10/2021
  15. Episode 37 – How the amaXhosa waged war and Governor Van Plettenberg takes a trip to the Great Fish River

    Publicado: 24/10/2021
  16. Episode 36 – The French and British fight over the Cape as bounty hunter Willem Prinsloo crosses the Fish River

    Publicado: 17/10/2021
  17. Episode 35 – The Mthethwa and Ndwandwe flex their muscles in what eventually will become known as Zululand

    Publicado: 10/10/2021
  18. Episode 34 – Trading and raiding, American whalers and the emergence of pre-Zulu chiefdoms in the East

    Publicado: 3/10/2021
  19. Episode 33 – By 1771 Cape Town has a name and explorers begin arriving in droves

    Publicado: 26/9/2021
  20. Episode 32 – An intermingling on the frontiers begins in earnest and a wide-angle view of the mid-to-late 18th C

    Publicado: 19/9/2021

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A series that seeks to tell the story of the South Africa in some depth. Presented by experienced broadcaster/podcaster Des Latham and updated weekly, the episodes will take a listener through the various epochs that have made up the story of South Africa.

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