Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way
We continue to rid4 with General Jan Smuts and he has just entered the Cape Colony, an invasion that has been planned to coincide with Spring in early September 1901. The master guerrilla fighter and ...
8 Sep 201919min
Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush
Spring is upon is in this podcast - so too the long-awaited invasion of the Cape Colony by General Jan Smuts and his commando. It has taken him almost a month of zig-zagging across the Free State from...
1 Sep 201919min
Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view
This week we hear about the Dandy Fifth and Deneys Reitz. It’s also time to ride with General Christiaan de Wet as he sums up the Blockhouses. Reitz has fallen in with “this little band” as he calls t...
25 Aug 201918min
Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley
It’s an amazing to think that back in 2017 I was thinking about this podcast and whether I should go ahead and cover a topic that was missing on both iTunes and general podcasting. Jumping in and star...
18 Aug 201916min
Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant
It’s early August 1901 and a series of events in a far off corner of the war would end up resonating internationally for the next one hundred and 18 years. These involved the Bushveld Carbineers, th...
11 Aug 201924min
Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED
It’s time for an exchange of letters and a proclamation or two. General Jan Smuts and his commando have broken into smaller units and are traveling from the Transvaal to the Free State / Cape border. ...
4 Aug 201918min
Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border
This week we will hear about bandits at the Southern Border who are making the most of the guerrilla war raging around the Transvaal, parts of the Cape and the Free State. These motley laggards lurke...
28 Jul 201917min
Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up
It’s the third week of July 1901 and this winter has been cold even by the standards of South Africa’s high plains. As I’m writing this, snow has blanketed parts of the semi-desert known as the Karoo ...
21 Jul 201919min
