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The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation — Fexingo History
Episodes — page 8
The 1922 Rand Rebellion: White Workers, Race, and RevolutionIn 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…
- The 1913 Natives Land Act: How South Africa's Spatial Apartheid Began
In 1913, the Union of South Africa passed the Natives Land Act, a law that confined Black South Africans to just 7% of the land. This episode explores the Act's origins, its devast…
- Mfecane: The Great Disruption That Reshaped Southern Africa
Before the Boer trekkers and British imperialists, Southern Africa was convulsed by a period of intense upheaval known as the Mfecane — or in Sesotho, Difaqane — meaning 'the crush…
- Bambatha Rebellion: The Last Zulu Uprising Against Colonial Rule
In 1906, the British colony of Natal faced a Zulu uprising that would be remembered as the Bambatha Rebellion. This episode dives into the story of Bambatha kaMancinza, a Zulu chie…
- Jan van Riebeeck and the Founding of Cape Town
In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay with orders to establish a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company. This episode traces the early days of Cape Town—from…
- Dr. James Moroka: The ANC President Who Stood Trial
In 1952, the Defiance Campaign against unjust laws swept South Africa, and at its head was a quietly formidable figure: Dr. James Moroka. A medical doctor and president of the Afri…
- South Africa's 1976 Soweto Uprising Precursor: the 1975 Vula Uprising
In 1975, a year before the Soweto Uprising shook apartheid South Africa, students in the Cape Town township of Vula sparked a forgotten rebellion against Bantu Education. This epis…
- The Cape Town Water Crisis: Drought, Politics, and Day Zero
In 2018, Cape Town came within days of becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. Episode 63 of The Story of South Africa unpacks the complex factors behind th…
- The 1913 Natives Land Act: How South Africa's Spatial Apartheid Began
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the origins of South Africa's spatial apartheid through the 1913 Natives Land Act. They discuss how the Act reserved 7% of the land for the…
- South Africa's 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the Birth of the PAC
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the Sharpeville massacre of March 21, 1960, when police opened fire on a peaceful anti-pass protest, killing 69 people. They explore the r…
