
Episode 273 - The Mountain of Destiny: Majuba and the Birth of a Nation
It is not a stretch to say that the defeat by the British at Majuba was also the political birth of the Afrikaner people. While the Great Tr...
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It is not a stretch to say that the defeat by the British at Majuba was also the political birth of the Afrikaner people. While the Great Tr...

Weather, some say, is fickle. Of course nature is just nature but when you’re on high ground, the mountains, and the weather moves in, the t...

The British had instigated a war in the Transvaal which fired off in early 1881, but they had already ignited another flashpoint - in Basuto...

The approach by the English political parties of the time to the young Boer Republics was confused, and even contradictory. William Gladston...

The Bapedi have a rich and textured history, as with most of South Africa’s past, where religion and tradition are entwined to create a cons...

There is something magical about mountain passes, weaving through majesty, each corner beckoning a driver like a formidable and compelling s...

Cornelius Vijn had made a few bad decisions in his life as we all do at some point. Born in Holland in 1856, he made his way to Natal in 187...

As the British tried to wrap up their war against the Zulu in South Africa, further afield the happy sound of a baby being born could be hea...

The last quarter of the 19th Century was in some ways, like the first quarter of the 21st Century - full of tone-deaf business barons gambli...

The twenty thousand strong Zulu army was camped near Nseka Mountain south of the British camp at Khambula hill — north west of modern day Vr...

The battles are coming thick and fast because this is the end of the seventh decade of the 19th Century - the British have just been defeate...

By mid-March 1879, Cetshwayo kaMpande made another attempt to open talks with Chelmsford, sending his indunas to negotiate for peace — but t...

Colonel Rowland’s number five column had been sent to guard the roads and garrison the Boer towns in the north eastern Transvaal — part to p...

We’re touring the sub-continent today, choose your mode of transport — Cape Cart, ox-wagon, horse, mule, on foot? Before the arrival of stea...

We’re touring the sub-continent today, choose your mode of transport — Cape Cart, ox-wagon, horse, mule, on foot? Before the arrival of stea...

It’s the 23rd January 1879, one of the most momentous days in South African history has passed, and the ripple effect will be felt across th...

Episode 258 Rorke’s Drift part two. It’s important to listen to Episode 257 because that sets everything up for this episode - there’s too m...

Rorke’s Drift was a battle that Cetshwayo kaMpande did not want, because it took place on the western bank of the Mzinyathi or Buffalo River...

Lord Chelmsford who had scurried off to the east in support of Major Dartnell only made it back to the slopes of Isandlwana at dusk on the d...

When we ended last episode a mounted patrol had stumbled on the main Zulu army of twenty thousand men which had which had hunkered down in t...
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