Episode 95 - A Concentration Camp Commission & Maxwell has a brush with dynamite under a skirt
It’s mid July 1901 and it's a Southern Winter. We will also hear how the commanding officer in Pretoria, General Maxwell, meets a Petticoat commando member Johanna van Warmelo who unknown to him, is c...
14 Jul 201920min
Episode 94 - The British break a Boer code and President Steyn is forced to flee wearing a nightcap
It’s the first week of July 1901 and the British are about to break the code both the Boers and the Dutch have been using which has meant London’s military planning at times has been beset by guess wo...
7 Jul 201920min
Episode 93 - The ruinous war costs 1.25m pounds a week & Lord Kitchener receives a telegram
The winds of war have been blowing cold across the veld, shrivelling the corpses that lie across hundreds of kilometres in all directions. It is the beginning of July 1901. Emily Hobhouse was so e...
30 Jun 201919min
Episode 92 - Methods of barbarism and Magistrate Kidwell signs an oath of neutrality
This week we spend some time in England as the political fallout caused by the Anglo-Boer war grows, and meet an unusual man called Magistrate Kidwell. But first, Emily Hobhouse finally presented her...
23 Jun 201919min
Episode 91 - Women are caught in an artillery barrage and a deadly blizzard sweeps across the veld
It’s mid June 1901. Winter in the Southern Hemisphere and in the Highveld or high plains of South Africa that means bitterly cold nights where the temperature can dip well below freezing. As I write, ...
16 Jun 201922min
Episode 90 - Casualties, alcohol, prostitutes and a skirmish at an overgrazed Free State farm
This week we’ll focus on the British troops and discuss how British army tactics had changed, and the role that alcohol and prostitution played in the three year war. There were more 65 000 English ...
9 Jun 201923min
Episode 89 - Emily Hobhouse pricks English consciousness & Reitz eats pork
IT’s June 1901 and there’s trouble brewing like a north sea storm around the British Isles. The main force behind this political hurricane is a diminutive but loud woman called Emily Hobhouse. While...
2 Jun 201918min
Episode 88 - Reitz chases Mustangs on the plains and Jan Smuts becomes pessimistic
Its the end of May and the guerrilla war has turned nasty as the coldest winter of living memory has started - bringing gusts of freezing wind which whipped through the Concentration Camps with their ...
26 Mai 201919min
