Episode 31 - The Battle of Sanna's Post & De Wet goes after Cape Afrikaners
Now we swing back to the Orange Free State and there’s a very good reason. His name is General Christian de Wet the famous Boer commander. If there was ever a person who fit the bill as cometh the hou...
22 Apr 201821min
Episode 30 - Black & White Man’s war and scouting the place of stones
It’s April 1900, the new century is four months old. Lord Roberts has halted after seizing the Orange Free State Republic capital Bloemfontein, and General Buller had finally liberated Ladysmith in Na...
15 Apr 201823min
Episode 29 - Clumsy Diplomacy fails while Baden-Powell blunders in Mafeking
This week we’re going to probe a comedy of errors that started with a seemingly clever plan by Orange Free State President Steyn to dispatch a diplomatic mission to Europe in order to drum up support....
8 Apr 201824min
Episode 28 - Journalists take Bloemfontein but typhoid breaks out
This week we’re traveling to the Orange Free State Republic capital Bloemfontein with Lord Robert’s army - and its not something to boast about. The capture of the town is known as a one-off - its th...
1 Apr 201822min
Episode 27 - Oom Paul Kruger evades capture at Poplar Grove
The Anglo-Boer war, embarked upon by both sides with confidence, was now to be maintained by faith and we shall see how that faith was expressed, and by whom .. and what became of it. One of these men...
25 Mar 201819min
Episode 26 - Ladysmith relieved and Buller makes film history
This week I thought we’d concentrate on the town of Ladysmith in Natal which had been besieged by the Boers for over a hundred days by February 1900. It was also the town from which nearly 13 000 Brit...
18 Mar 201821min
Episode 25 - Hlangwane, Monte Christo and a key to unlock Ladysmith
After spending some time in the West where Kimberley has been relieved and Free State Boer General Cronje had surrendered with 4000 Burghers after a fortnight of retreat, entrenching and then being bo...
11 Mar 201820min
Episode 24 - Cronje surrenders to Lord Roberts
It’s February 1900 and things have begun to change in South Africa. The British Army corps which so far has found itself flailing against an enemy steeped in the concept of mobility and able to explo...
4 Mar 201817min
