Podcast Index

Podcasts

Browse podcasts by category, open recent episodes, and download audio to listen offline.

History of South Africa podcast History of South Africa podcast Desmond Latham Parabellum Parabellum Parabellum Shoulder Roll Virtual Boxing Shoulder Roll Virtual Boxing Gregory Abdur-Rasheed Geschiedenis voor herbeginners Geschiedenis voor herbeginners Jonas Goossenaerts, Filip Vekemans, Benjamin Goyvaerts, Laurent Poschet 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast Jon Hagadorn Podcast Host Tudors Dynasty & Beyond Tudors Dynasty & Beyond RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson Far Out With Faust (FOWF) Far Out With Faust (FOWF) Far Out With Faust Cinema Chat With David Heath Cinema Chat With David Heath David Efemérides con Nibaldo Mosciatti Efemérides con Nibaldo Mosciatti BioBioChile Nota Bene Nota Bene Benjamin Brillaud Radio Wissous Radio Wissous Radio Wissous Playlist Culture G : les podcasts pour apprendre chaque jour Playlist Culture G : les podcasts pour apprendre chaque jour Acast France Rock a Domicilio Rock a Domicilio Alberto Marchena BELLUMARTIS PODCAST BELLUMARTIS PODCAST Bellumartis Historia Militar LOST ROMAN HEROES LOST ROMAN HEROES Matteo & Matthew Storm Dazed and confused: Led Zeppelin Bio. Dazed and confused: Led Zeppelin Bio. Mario A Ortiz Ramos Seforimchatter Seforimchatter Nachi Weinstein Iron Trap Garage Podcast Iron Trap Garage Podcast Iron Trap Native Land Pod Native Land Pod iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice American Campus Podcast American Campus Podcast Lauren Lassabe Shepherd Bloomin' Legends with Johnny Vaughan & Gavin Woods Bloomin' Legends with Johnny Vaughan & Gavin Woods Global Next Level Soul Español con Alex Ferrari Next Level Soul Español con Alex Ferrari Alex Ferrari Valérie Deschamps Valérie Deschamps Valérie Deschamps History for the Curious - The Jewish History Podcast History for the Curious - The Jewish History Podcast JLE 海獅說---生活裡的小世界史 海獅說---生活裡的小世界史 神奇海獅先生 This Day in Sports History This Day in Sports History Thrive Sweet Productions The Down South Salvation Podcast The Down South Salvation Podcast Trevor "Anglo-Methodist" Miles Western Context - News from Alberta, BC, and Canada Western Context - News from Alberta, BC, and Canada Western Context The Frommer's Travel Show The Frommer's Travel Show Pauline Frommer Psychedelic Chill Music Podcast Psychedelic Chill Music Podcast Psychedelic Chill Music Entrez dans l'Histoire Entrez dans l'Histoire RTL RTL Stories RTL Stories RTL Toute l'actualité en temps réel avec Europe 1 Toute l'actualité en temps réel avec Europe 1 Europe 1 Modern Classical Music Podcast Modern Classical Music Podcast Tandy Venice Les grands dossiers de l'Histoire par Franck Ferrand Les grands dossiers de l'Histoire par Franck Ferrand Radio Classique If You Could Hie To Kolob If You Could Hie To Kolob If You Could Hie To Kolob The Security Nexus Deep Dive The Security Nexus Deep Dive The Security Nexus
History of South Africa podcast

History

History of South Africa podcast

Desmond Latham

Episode 281 - The Boers anoint Dinizulu King of the Zulus

June 28, 2026 3:41am 25 min

Cetshwayo had sought refuge in Nkandla as his arch enemy, Zibhebhu, turned his attention to the royalists living along the Zululand Coastal plain. Soon Somkhele of the Mphukunyoni and the emaNgweni people were hiding in ...

Episode 280 - Zibhebhu’s Mandlakazi shatter Cetshwayo’s uSuthu setting off a Zulu Civil War

June 21, 2026 3:05am 32 min

On the afternoon of 10th January 1883, King Cetshwayo kaMpande climbed off a skiff and onto the beach at Port Dunford, surviving the heavy and powerful surf. The British had been using this stretch of desolate sand as th...

Episode 279 - Dean Williams and Bishop Merriman compete for Anglican Souls as De Villiers Graaff Ponders

June 14, 2026 2:46am 20 min

We’re up to the early 1880s where world events are intersecting in various ways with southern African events. The mere ratification of the Pretoria Convention in 1881 failed to bring peace and prosperity to South Africa...

Episode 278 - The South African Suez Canal, Stellaland and Goshen and James Honey's Murder Most Foul

June 07, 2026 2:18am 20 min

In 1882, the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that π was transcendental: it cannot be reduced to a tidy equation, never captured inside the comfortable boundaries expected by mathematicians. For centur...

Episode 277 - Cetshwayo visits Queen Victoria and the Victorian link between Afghanistan and Zululand

May 31, 2026 2:16am 18 min

When Cetshwayo kaMpande was captured after the Anglo-Zulu War, he was ferried to Cape Town and on to Robben Island. His countenance was one of dignity but that is difficult to maintain in the face of terrible sea-sicknes...

Episode 276 — Okavango Khwebe Wind and a Dorsland Trekker Angolan Odyssey

May 24, 2026 2:22am 18 min

Die Dorsland — the Thirstland — is part of the Kalahari that has an interesting history when it comes to pastoralists. The San didn’t call it the Thirstland, for them it wasn’t a barrier but part of a network of seasonal...

Episode 275 — Pilgrims Rest, French Bob’s Gold and Barberton’s Champagne Foot Baths

May 17, 2026 2:22am 26 min

Thousands of miners were streaming into the Transvaal by the third quarter of the 19th Century, a horde of avuncular independent-minded treasure hunters. In volume Two of the Cambridge History of South Africa, Stanley Tr...

Episode 274 - The Pretoria Convention ends the First Anglo-Boer War, Suzerainty Unresolved

May 10, 2026 3:06am 28 min

The hill of Doves — in isiZulu amaJuba means the place of many doves or pigeons. It became a place of violence and blood, and yet the catastrophic defeat of the British at Majuba was indeed to lead to peace. The doves ...

Episode 273 - The Mountain of Destiny: Majuba and the Birth of a Nation

May 03, 2026 2:27am 19 min

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 Trek provided the origin story, Majuba provided the validation—the sense that thei...

Episode 272 - The Boers wring Major General Colley’s Column at Laing’s Nek

April 26, 2026 1:53am 19 min

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 temperature drops in minutes and wind shifts. It is a dangerous place and that’s ...

Episode 271 - Basutoland Gun War, Gold Coast and Ottoman Empire

April 19, 2026 2:51am 22 min

The British had instigated a war in the Transvaal which fired off in early 1881, but they had already ignited another flashpoint - in Basutoland. This was a fascinating conflict, and it has modern overtones. For the new ...

Episode 270 - Kruger vs Black Michael and Courageous Women at the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit

April 12, 2026 2:43am 21 min

The approach by the English political parties of the time to the young Boer Republics was confused, and even contradictory. William Gladstone, a liberal, had succeeded in ousting the Tory’s under Benjamin Disraeli in his...

Episode 269 - Bapedi Chief Sekhukhune’s Cruel Fate and the Afrikaner Paradox

April 05, 2026 3:25am 20 min

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 consciousness of life that is attractive to the naturally curious. Today, part of ...

Episode 268 - The Theodolite and the Hardepad: Thomas Bain’s Silent Mountain Pass Artisans

March 29, 2026 2:47am 21 min

There is something magical about mountain passes, weaving through majesty, each corner beckoning a driver like a formidable and compelling saga, muffled in mist or bright in the sunshine. Imaginations are fired and child...

Episode 267 - Betrayal at the End: Mnyamana, Cetshwayo’s Dutchman, and the Crushing of the Zulu Kingdom

March 22, 2026 3:11am 21 min

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 1874 where he rapidly learned both English and isiZulu. That wasn’t necessarily a b...

Episode 266: The Wakkerstroom Boer-Zulu Alliance and the death of Prince Napoleon

March 15, 2026 2:08am 21 min

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 heard in Germany. Not just any baby. Albert Einstein was born at 11.30 in the morn...

Episode 265 – John Dunn’s MI5 Connection, Gingindlovu, and the Relief of Eshowe

March 08, 2026 1:22am 18 min

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 gambling building vast riches — financing politicians and in accelerating the planet t...

Episode 264 - The Forgotten Battle of Khambula (1879): The Turning Point of the Anglo-Zulu War

March 01, 2026 1:56am 22 min

The twenty thousand strong Zulu army was camped near Nseka Mountain south of the British camp at Khambula hill — north west of modern day Vryheid. After defeating Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Wood’s Number 4 column at Hloba...

Episode 263 - How Black Voters Helped Elect Cecil Rhodes: Kimberley and the Cape Franchise, 1879

February 22, 2026 1:19am 19 min

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 defeated at the Battle of Hlobane mountain on the 28th March. There’s been so much sko...

Episode 262 - The Battle of Hlobane – Cowardice, Confusion and the Reckoning at Devil’s Pass

February 14, 2026 12:01pm 24 min

By mid-March 1879, Cetshwayo kaMpande made another attempt to open talks with Chelmsford, sending his indunas to negotiate for peace — but the British had no appetite for compromise. On the 22nd March two emissaries arr...

Submit Your Favorite Station

Fill in the form below. Make sure to select both Country and Genres.

Name
Category
Hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) to select multiple.
Streaming URL
Logo (JPG, JPEG or PNG)

Contact us

Send us a message below. We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Subject
Your name
Email address
Station or page URL
Message
What is 11 plus 3?
We also attach your country, browser, current page, and device details to help us investigate issues.