Ah this is superb Gordon! Having grown up in Colenso and trapsed all the Voortrekker paths and Blaawkrantz and the battlefields of the Anglo Zulu and Anglo Boer wars, I can resonate with your every word. I am still an ardent student of SA history - especially the hidden history; and I simply cannot romantise any of it - it was brutal... and much of greed inspired. When I visit my cousins in Staithes (Stea-az) in Northern Yorkshire, they often take me in to the town of Whitby (that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula)... I that town is a mound called Spionkop and the road running past it is call Khyber pass!... Those Yorkshire Regiments were instrument in the batllefields of Natal and the Punjab!.. Thanks agai for a fabulous podcast! Take care ken
Wow Gordon. So riveting I almost forgot to breathe. Scorching. Brilliant.
Ah this is superb Gordon! Having grown up in Colenso and trapsed all the Voortrekker paths and Blaawkrantz and the battlefields of the Anglo Zulu and Anglo Boer wars, I can resonate with your every word. I am still an ardent student of SA history - especially the hidden history; and I simply cannot romantise any of it - it was brutal... and much of greed inspired. When I visit my cousins in Staithes (Stea-az) in Northern Yorkshire, they often take me in to the town of Whitby (that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula)... I that town is a mound called Spionkop and the road running past it is call Khyber pass!... Those Yorkshire Regiments were instrument in the batllefields of Natal and the Punjab!.. Thanks agai for a fabulous podcast! Take care ken