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The Story of South Africa: Empire, Apartheid, and Transformation — Fexingo History
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The St Helena Prisoners: South Africa's Island ExilesAfter the Anglo-Boer War, thousands of Boer prisoners were shipped from South Africa to the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where they lived in tented camps for nearly three y…
- The War of Words: Afrikaner Nationalism and the Development of Apartheid, 1933-1948
In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the intellectual and political roots of apartheid, focusing on the rise of Afrikaner nationalism from the 1930s through the 1948 elections. Th…
- The Boer War Concentration Camps: Emily Hobhouse's Crusade
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concentration camps of the Second Boer War (1899–1902), where over 26,000 Boer women and children and more than 20,000 Black Africans di…
- The 1913 Land Act's First Protest: The African National Congress's 1914 Deputation
Just months after the 1913 Natives Land Act stripped Black South Africans of land rights, a delegation of African leaders boarded a ship to London to plead their case before the Br…
- The 1918 Flu's Forgotten Legacy in South Africa's Townships
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on South Africa, focusing on the often-overlooked story of the Witwatersrand's mining…
- The 1918 Flu in South Africa: Hidden Toll of a Global Pandemic
In 1918, the Spanish flu swept through South Africa, killing over 300,000 people in six weeks. This episode looks at how the pandemic spread along the Witwatersrand's mining networ…
- The 1918 Flu in South Africa: Pandemic's Hidden Toll
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on South Africa, a story often overshadowed by the Great War. They trace how the disea…
- The 1913 Land Act's Legacy: African Women's Resistance
Episode 202 of The Story of South Africa turns to a largely overlooked chapter in the struggle for land and dignity: the organized resistance of African women in the wake of the 19…
- The 1914 Rebellion: South Africa's Afrikaner Civil War
In 1914, as Europe plunged into war, South Africa faced its own internal crisis. Boer generals who had fought the British just a dozen years earlier now rose against their own gove…
- Diamonds, De Beers, and the Mineral Revolution
In this milestone 200th episode, Lucas and Luna return to the story of South Africa after the discovery of diamonds near the Orange River in 1867. They explore how the diamond rush…
- The Cape Town Water Crisis: Apartheid's Aftermath and Climate
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Cape Town water crisis of 2015–2018, placing it in the long shadow of apartheid's spatial planning and infrastructural neglect. They dis…
- The Cape Coloured Vote: From Token to Tool of Apartheid
In 1853, the Cape Colony granted a non-racial franchise open to all men who met property and wage qualifications, regardless of race. For the next eighty years, a small but signifi…
- The 1913 Natives Land Act: How South Africa's Racial Geography Was Drawn
In 1913, the Union of South Africa passed one of the most consequential laws in its history: the Natives Land Act. It reserved about seven percent of the country's land for the Afr…
- The Battle of Blood River's Forgotten Aftermath
In 1838, Voortrekkers and Zulu forces clashed at the Ncome River in what became known as the Battle of Blood River. But the violence didn't end with the Zulu defeat. This episode f…
- The Anglo-Zulu War: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
In 1879, the British Empire collided with the Zulu Kingdom in a war that would shock the world. This episode follows the Anglo-Zulu War from its origins in imperial ambition to its…
- Moses Kotane: The Communist Who Defied Apartheid
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna explore the extraordinary life of Moses Kotane, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party who navigate…
- The Black Sash: White Women Against Apartheid
In 1955, six white women in Johannesburg founded the Black Sash, a protest organization that would defy apartheid for four decades. This episode traces the Black Sash from its earl…
- The 1956 Treason Trial: South Africa's Showdown in the Old Synagogue
In 1956, 156 activists — including Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and Helen Joseph — were arrested and charged with high treason for daring to challenge apartheid. The trial would…
- The Boer War's Forgotten Front: The Siege of Mafeking
In this episode of The Story of South Africa, Lucas and Luna explore the Siege of Mafeking, a 217-day standoff that became a legend of the Anglo-Boer War. They unpack the strategic…
- Founding the African National Congress: Bloemfontein 1912
In early 1912, a group of African intellectuals, chiefs, and activists gathered in Bloemfontein to form a political organization that would become the African National Congress — t…
