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The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation — Fexingo History
Episodes — page 10
The Cape Malay Identity: Islam, Slavery, and the Bo-KaapLucas and Luna explore the origins and evolution of the Cape Malay identity, tracing it from the arrival of political exiles and enslaved people from the Dutch East Indies in the 1…
- The Cape Smoke: Brandy, Rebellion, and the 1815 Slachter's Nek
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the little-known Slachter's Nek Rebellion of 1815, a pivotal uprising of Cape Dutch farmers against British colonial rule. The revolt was sp…
- The Treaty of Paris 1783 and the Cape Colony Handover
In 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution, but its ripples reached the Cape of Good Hope. This episode follows the little-known story of how the French occupation…
- The Cape Town Water Crisis: Day Zero and the Politics of Drought
In 2018, Cape Town faced 'Day Zero'—the day the taps would run dry. This episode dives into the causes: three years of drought, aging infrastructure, climate change, and political…
- The Cape Town Water Crisis Day Zero and the Politics of Drought
In 2018, Cape Town faced an unprecedented threat: Day Zero, the day the city's taps would run dry. This episode explores the causes of the crisis—a multi-year drought, inefficient…
- The Middle Passage of Southern Africa: Slavery at the Cape
Long before apartheid, long before the Boer republics, the Cape Colony was built on the backs of enslaved people from Africa and Asia. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the f…
- King kaDinuzulu and the Zulu Royal Succession Crisis
In the wake of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, the British carved Zululand into thirteen chiefdoms, setting off a vicious succession struggle. This episode centers on Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo…
- King Cetshwayo and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the rise of King Cetshwayo, the last great Zulu king, and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. They explore Cetshwayo's consolidation of power afte…
- Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi: The 1980s Massacres South Africa Forgets
In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe's newly independent government under Robert Mugabe unleashed a brutal campaign of violence against civilians in Matabeleland, known as Gukurahundi. The…
- The 1922 Rand Rebellion: White Workers, Race, and Revolution
In 1922, white miners on South Africa's Witwatersrand gold fields took up arms against the government in an uprising that combined class militancy, racial nationalism, and apocalyp…
- The Treaty of Vereeniging: Peace That Planted Apartheid
In May 1902, in a dusty town south of Johannesburg, Boer and British generals signed the Treaty of Vereeniging, ending the Second Anglo-Boer War. Lucas and Luna explore the fraught…
- The Cape Town Water Crisis: Day Zero and the Politics of Drought
In 2018, Cape Town came within days of becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. This episode unpacks the Cape Town water crisis, from the role of climate cha…
- The 1913 Natives Land Act and the Origins of Spatial Apartheid
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna revisit the 1913 Natives Land Act, a foundational piece of legislation that turned the clock back for Black South Afric…
- The Boer War Concentration Camps: Emily Hobhouse and the Scandal
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna delve into one of the most controversial aspects of the Second Anglo-Boer War: the concentration camps established by t…
- The Khoisan Genocide: South Africa's First Peoples
Long before the Dutch arrived at Table Bay, the Khoikhoi and San peoples had inhabited southern Africa for millennia. When Jan van Riebeeck established the VOC refreshment station…
- The Boer Commandos: Guerrilla Warfare and the Scorched Earth
This episode shifts from the concentration camps to the battlefield, exploring the Boer commandos' transition to guerrilla warfare after the British captured Pretoria in 1900. Luca…
- Blood River: The Vow, the Battle, and the Legacy
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Battle of Blood River, a pivotal moment in South African history. They discuss the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, the Zulu king D…
- Diamonds, Debt, and Dispossession: The Griqualand West Saga
Long before Johannesburg's gold rush, the discovery of diamonds along the Vaal and Orange Rivers transformed a remote corner of the Northern Cape into the epicentre of a global scr…
- King Moshoeshoe I and the Mountain Fortress of Thaba-Bosiu
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the life and legacy of King Moshoeshoe I, the founder of the Basotho nation. They discuss his early years at Menkhoaneng, how he gathered fo…
- The Great Trek: Vanguard, Voortrekkers, and the Battle of Blood River
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s, when Dutch-speaking farmers (Boers) left the Cape Colony to establish independent republics in the in…
