Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin
Its summer – December 1901. General Jan Smuts is on the run in the Cape Colony being chased by tens of thousands of British troops who are fixating on the fact that they don’t seem to be able to pin d...
29 Dec 201919min
Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present
This episode takes us to Christmas 1901 and the battle of Groenkop near Bethlehem in the Free State where General Christiaan de Wet catches the British offguard on the top of a two hundred foot high k...
22 Dec 201921min
Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message
So its December 1901 Christmas is a fortnight away for the combatants and Christiaan de Wet was tracking his arch enemy, brother Piet. It was revenge he was after and as we all know – it’s a meal bes...
14 Dec 201918min
Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion
This week its all about the scandal of the Concentration Camps which breaks across Great Britain as the Fawcett Commission releases its initial report. We also continue to monitor General Christiaan d...
8 Dec 201919min
Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens
This week General Christiaan De Wet who has been largely dormant for November awakens and begins to leer in the direction of the Cape once more while Sarah Raal continues to ride with Commandant Nieuw...
1 Dec 201917min
Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed
This week’s episode is dominated by a young woman who we heard about last week called Sarah Raal. While some of her exploits have been exaggerated for Nationalist reasons years after the Boer War, the...
24 Nov 201920min
Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki
Episode 113 covers events happening in November 1901 with six months of the war and this podcast left to run. This week Deneys Reitz and his fellow Boers suddenly realise they should not be wearing Br...
17 Nov 201919min
Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death
The first week of November 1901 shipping records published in the Times of London featured regular updates such as this one: “The Armenian left Port Natal for Bombay on Nov 3 with Boer prisoners, 36 o...
10 Nov 201918min
