Episode 87 - The sad story of Gert Bezuidenhout (12)& Deneys Reitz starts his Quixotic Cape Quest
This week we spend some time with Johanna van Warmelo and Deneys Reitz, the former who starts a new position as a nurse in a Concentration Camp at Irene outside Pretoria, and the the latter who has ju...
19 Maj 201916min
Episode 86 - General Louis Botha grows despondent while Reitz plays cat and mouse with the English
We’ve reached May 1901 and surprisingly, General Louis Botha is trying to reach out to Lord Kitchener who is the British Army commander of the over 240 000 troops in South Africa. Botha wants specia...
12 Maj 201918min
Episode 85 - Emily Hobhouse mobilises against the "gigantic blunder" of the Concentration Camps
It’s the first week of May 1901, and winter has come early in South Africa. As I mentioned last week, at this point social activist Emily Hobhouse was on board a ship heading for England after exper...
5 Maj 201919min
Episode 84 - Captain Phillipps frets about Tommy Atkins & New Zealanders learn a Maori War Cry
This week, we’ll track a Londoner who rode with Rimington’s Tigers then there’ll be a quick story about a Maori who arrived in South Africa during the war to fight, but also carried a Violin. At the ...
28 Apr 201920min
Episode 83 - Boer Secret Service Spy Johanna van Warmelo and the Petticoat Commando
In this episode Easter Sunday had come and gone on the 7th April and for most combatants stretched across the vastness of the South African veld, it was characterised by fear and loathing. The concent...
21 Apr 201920min
Episode 82 - Aborigine trackers, the Great Comet Viscara and the case of Gideon Scheepers
Deneys Reitz had broken his own leg in a freak accident and was still hobbling about, his compound fracture causing some pain. General de la Rey ordered him to a small medical camp behind the lines ne...
14 Apr 201917min
Episode 81 - Black participation in the Boer War and Reitz breaks a leg
Deneys Reitz will experience a terrible wound to his leg and we will probe an issue that caused much gnashing of teeth - the role of Black South Africans in the war. A quick note for my American list...
7 Apr 201920min
Episode 80- A Boer Rodeo near Swart Ruggens & General Bindon Blood makes his dashing appearance
When we ended last week, Deneys Reitz had rejoined General de la Rey along with his Dopper companions, and had been regaled by the prophet, van Rensburg in late March 1901. The General was aware tha...
31 Mars 201917min
