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The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation — Fexingo History
Episodes — page 5
The 1976 Soweto Uprising Aftermath: Exile and the Armed StruggleThe Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976, was a seismic event in South African history, but what happened to the students who survived? In this episode, hosts Lucas and Luna trace the…
- The 1976 Soweto Uprising: South Africa’s Turning Point
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the 1976 Soweto Uprising, a pivotal moment in South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle. They explore the immediate cause—the compulsory teac…
- The Mfecane: South Africa's Forgotten Cataclysm
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Mfecane — the period of upheaval and state formation in early 19th-century Southern Africa that reshaped the region. They focus on the r…
- South Africa's 1914 Rebellion: Jopie Fourie's Execution and Afrikaner Martyrdom
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna explore the tragic story of Jopie Fourie, the Afrikaner rebel executed by the Union government in 1914. Fourie, a staun…
- The 1946 African Mine Workers' Strike: A Forgotten Uprising
In August 1946, 100,000 black mine workers on the Witwatersrand downed tools in the largest strike in South African history. Led by African Mine Workers' Union president J.B. Marks…
- The 1946 Mine Strike: South Africa's Forgotten Labor Uprising
In August 1946, 100,000 Black gold miners on the Witwatersrand walked off the job in one of the largest labor actions in South African history. The African Mine Workers' Strike was…
- The 1913 Natives Land Act's Long Shadow: Land Dispossession in South Africa
In 1913, the Natives Land Act confined the majority of South Africa's black population to just seven percent of the land. This episode explores the act's devastating impact through…
- The 1820 British Settlers: South Africa's Eastern Cape Transformation
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the arrival of roughly 4,000 British settlers to the Eastern Cape in 1820 — a planned migration that reshaped the frontier between the Cape…
- The 1968 SASO Formation: Black Consciousness Rising
In 1968, a group of black university students led by Steve Biko founded the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), breaking away from the white-dominated National Union of So…
- The 1956 Treason Trial: The State vs 156 South Africans
In December 1956, the Apartheid government stunned the nation by raiding homes and offices across South Africa, arresting 156 prominent anti-apartheid activists in a single day. Ch…
- The 1922 Rand Rebellion: White Workers Rise Up
In March 1922, Johannesburg was a war zone. White miners, backed by armed commandos, took up arms against the state in what became known as the Rand Rebellion. This episode explore…
- The 1992 Boipatong Massacre: Negotiation and Violence in South Africa's Transition
In June 1992, as South Africa stumbled toward its first democratic elections, a horrific massacre in the Vaal Triangle settlement of Boipatong nearly derailed the entire negotiated…
- The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion: South Africa's Civil War Over WWI
In 1914, just four years after the Union of South Africa was formed, the country plunged into a brief but bitter civil war. When Prime Minister Louis Botha committed South African…
- The 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the Birth of PAC
On 21 March 1960, peaceful anti-pass protesters in Sharpeville were gunned down by police, killing 69 and wounding 180. This episode reconstructs the day, introduces the Pan Africa…
- The 1856 Xhosa Cattle-Killing and the Prophetess Nongqawuse
In 1856, a teenage girl named Nongqawuse emerged from the banks of the Gxarha River in British Kaffraria with a prophecy: the amaXhosa must slaughter their cattle and destroy their…
- The 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
This episode of The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation examines the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, a pivotal conflict that reshaped Southern Africa. Lucas and Luna…
- South Africa's 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion and the Treason Court
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna revisit the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion against South Africa's entry into World War I, but from a fresh angle: the afterma…
- The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion Against South Africa's WWI Entry
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna delve into the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion, a revolt by Boer commandos against the Union of South Africa's decision to joi…
- South Africa's 1894 Glen Grey Act: Forging a Labour Force
Long before apartheid's grand architecture, a single piece of colonial legislation in the eastern Cape quietly engineered dispossession on an industrial scale. The 1894 Glen Grey A…
- The 1795 British Invasion of the Cape Colony
In September 1795, a British expeditionary force landed at Simon's Town and marched on Cape Town, forcing the surrender of the Dutch Cape Colony after a brief but decisive campaign…
