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Jan 2024
45m 32s

1 - A single spark starts the fire

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About this episode

A death at police hands is the final ingredient added to a toxic brew of British grievances against their Afrikaner rulers. For the Boers the British are little more than foreigners, and both see the tens of thousands of black Africans worthy of no rights whatsoever. 


The debate is simply over which white men will rule.


Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by David Thomas

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production


Cast;

Conrad Reid

Thomas Mitchells 

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