History of South Africa podcast
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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Episodes (292)
Episode 291 - The Miracle of South Africa’s Railways: Navvies, Gangers and Grann...
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Episode 290 - Africanders, Afrikaners and the Sprigg/Hofmeyr/Rhodes Voter Disenf...
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Episode 289 - Black Velvet Opskop, De Beers’ Trojan Horse, an Historic Trick and...
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Episode 288 - Squabbling Europeans Dissect Africa and the Sultan of Zanzibar get...
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Episode 287 - "Not Worth Hell Room" — JB Robinson, Widow Oosthuizen, and the Wit...
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Episode 286 - German Mercenary von Brandis formally Proclaims Johannesburg
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Episode 285 - The Three Georges Gold Saga and a Bottle of Mampoer Vignette
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Episode 284 - Australians and the Struben Brothers Hunt Gold on the Ridge of Whi...
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Episode 283 - Warren’s Great North Road Balloon and Telegraph Escapade
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Episode 282 - The Scramble for Africa Berlin Conference of 1884/5 and Lüderitz b...
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Episode 281 - The Boers anoint Dinizulu King of the Zulus
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Episode 280 - Zibhebhu’s Mandlakazi shatter Cetshwayo’s uSuthu setting off a Zul...
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Episode 279 - Dean Williams and Bishop Merriman compete for Anglican Souls as De...
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Episode 278 - The South African Suez Canal, Stellaland and Goshen and James Hone...
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Episode 277 - Cetshwayo visits Queen Victoria and the Victorian link between Afg...
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Episode 276 — Okavango Khwebe Wind and a Dorsland Trekker Angolan Odyssey
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Episode 275 — Pilgrims Rest, French Bob’s Gold and Barberton’s Champagne Foot Ba...
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Episode 274 - The Pretoria Convention ends the First Anglo-Boer War, Suzerainty...
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Episode 273 - The Mountain of Destiny: Majuba and the Birth of a Nation
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Episode 272 - The Boers wring Major General Colley’s Column at Laing’s Nek
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Episode 271 - Basutoland Gun War, Gold Coast and Ottoman Empire
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Episode 270 - Kruger vs Black Michael and Courageous Women at the Battle of Bron...
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Episode 269 - Bapedi Chief Sekhukhune’s Cruel Fate and the Afrikaner Paradox
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Episode 268 - The Theodolite and the Hardepad: Thomas Bain’s Silent Mountain Pas...
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Episode 267 - Betrayal at the End: Mnyamana, Cetshwayo’s Dutchman, and the Crush...
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Episode 266: The Wakkerstroom Boer-Zulu Alliance and the death of Prince Napoleo...
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Episode 265 – John Dunn’s MI5 Connection, Gingindlovu, and the Relief of Eshowe
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Episode 264 - The Forgotten Battle of Khambula (1879): The Turning Point of the...
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Episode 263 - How Black Voters Helped Elect Cecil Rhodes: Kimberley and the Cape...
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Episode 262 - The Battle of Hlobane – Cowardice, Confusion and the Reckoning at...
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Episode 261 - Zulu War: Ntombe River Massacre & Prince Hamu’s Defection
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Episode 260 - Touring South Africa pre-1880, the Tangled Tale of Woolworths and...
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-DELETED- Episode 260 - Touring South Africa pre-1880, How Woolworths started an...
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Episode 259 - After Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift: Ghost Armies and a Unique Truc...
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Episode 258 - Rorke’s Drift, Part Two: Dabulamanzi’s Gamble and Chard’s Night of...
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Episode 257 - Rorke’s Drift Part I: Defiance, Disobedience and the Aftermath of...
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Episode 256 - The Lightning of Heaven Release Spirits as Rorke’s Drift Comes int...
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Episode 255 - A Partial Eclipse of the Sun Spreads a Dark Veil Over Bloody Isand...
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Episode 254 - Skop, Skiet and Donner on the Day of the Dead Moon
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Episode 253 - The order of Battle Before Isandlwana and Nyezane and ‘ukhuni’ Woo...
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Episode 252 — Chelmsford’s Fatal Confidence: The Day Before Isandlwana
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Episode 251 - The Grey Vultures of Ondini Gather Before a March to Isandhlwana w...
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Episode 250 - Nqutu's Rocky Mountains: British officers bicker then Zulu Snipers...
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Episode 249 - Three Columns and a Thousand Secrets: Chelmsford’s 1879 Invasion o...
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Episode 248 - The Eagle and Four Hawks: The Making of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
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Episode 247 - A Ball of Sand Fallacy and Frere Demonizes Cetshwayo
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Episode 246 - Black Bricks, Armed Maids, and the Bloody Marriage of the Ngcugce
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Episode 245 - Sir Bartle Frere’s Excellent Adventure: A Gentleman’s Guide to Ign...
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Episode 244 - Twitters' Transvaal Annexation, Rider Haggard’s Role and Railways
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Episode 243 - Guns, Germans and Steal: The Pedi War of 1876
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