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The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation — Fexingo History
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The Boer War's Forgotten African VictimsWhile history remembers the concentration camps for Boer women and children, a lesser-known tragedy unfolded alongside them. In this episode, we explore the systematic internment o…
- The Lost Colony of St Helena's Boer Exiles
This episode explores the unexpected chapter of South African history where over four thousand Boer prisoners were exiled to St. Helena in the early twentieth century. Following th…
- The Cape Town Slave Lodge and the Birth of a Multicultural City
We explore the origins of Cape Town’s unique cultural mosaic by tracing the lives of those enslaved by the Dutch East India Company at the Cape Town Slave Lodge. From the Bo-Kaap n…
- Mandela's Prison University and the Robben Island Intellectuals
This episode explores the unexpected intellectual renaissance that occurred within the confines of Robben Island’s Maximum Security prison during the 1970s and 1980s. While Nelson…
- The Cape Town Slave Lodge and the Birth of a Multicultural City
We step inside the walls of the Cape Town Slave Lodge, built by the Dutch East India Company in 1679 to house enslaved people from across Asia and Africa. This episode explores how…
- The Cape Town Slave Lodge and the Birth of a Multicultural City
While we have covered the brutal mechanics of apartheid, the pass laws, and the resistance movements in detail, this episode turns the clock back to the very foundations of Cape To…
- The Great Treason Trial: Defying Apartheid in Court
In 1956, the apartheid government launched its most ambitious legal offensive to crush the resistance movement, arresting 156 activists including Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and…
- Robben Island's Political University: Mandela's Prison Years
Most people know Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for twenty-seven years, but fewer understand that Robben Island became an unexpected university of political strategy. This episode e…
- The Black Sash: White Women Defying Apartheid
While the ANC and PAC made headlines with mass marches and armed struggle, a quiet but formidable resistance was taking shape in the suburbs of Johannesburg and Cape Town. This epi…
- The Cape Corps at Delville Wood: South Africa's Forgotten Soldiers
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, we dive into the little-known story of the Cape Corps, a segregated unit of Coloured South African soldiers who fought in both world w…
- The Cape Corps at Delville Wood: South Africa's Forgotten Soldiers
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of the Cape Corps, the Coloured South African regiment that fought in World War I and II. From the brutal trenches of Delville Woo…
- The Cape Corps: South Africa's Forgotten Soldiers
In Episode 218 of The Story of South Africa, we explore the Cape Corps, the segregated military unit of Coloured South Africans who served in both World Wars. From the battlefields…
- The 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: A Turning Point
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Sharpeville massacre of March 21, 1960, a pivotal moment in South African history. They trace the events leading up to the protest again…
- The 1956 Women's March: Pretoria's Silent Protest
In August 1956, 20,000 women of all races converged on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to African women. Led by Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Ra…
- The 1955 Kliptown Congress: Freedom Charter's Radical Vision
In June 1955, 3,000 South Africans of every race gathered in a dusty township outside Johannesburg to adopt a document that would shape the anti-apartheid movement for decades: the…
- Women's Anti-Pass Protests in 1919: Defiance Before Apartheid
Before the famous 1956 march, Black South African women mounted a fierce but largely forgotten campaign against the pass laws. This episode follows the 1919 anti-pass protests in B…
- The 1956 Women's March to Pretoria
In 1956, 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the pass laws that would have forced them to carry reference books. This episode tells the story of that…
- The 1948 Election: How Apartheid Won South Africa
In 1948, South Africa held an election that would shape the country for decades. The National Party, led by D.F. Malan, won on a platform of apartheid — a term newly coined and agg…
- The 1946 Mine Strike: Black Labour and the Cracks Before Apartheid
In 1946, 70,000 Black mineworkers on the Witwatersrand walked off the job, demanding higher wages and the right to organise. It was the largest strike in South African history up t…
- Emily Hobhouse's Second Mission: The 1903 War After the War
In 1903, two years after the Treaty of Vereeniging, Emily Hobhouse returned to South Africa to face the wreckage of the Boer War's concentration camps. The British had burned farms…
