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    Witness History

    Witness History

    Witness History

    ratings:
    Length:
    1082 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    History as told by the people who were there.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 1082 episodes

    Title

    Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile

    On 13 December 1990, the anti-apartheid politician Oliver Tambo returned to South Afric...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships

    Brenda Fassie was one of South Africa's biggest pop stars in the late 1980s. The singer...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 25, 2024

    Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

    In August 2002, the remains of an indigenous South African woman called Sarah Baartman ...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 24, 2024

    Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

    When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans ...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    South Africa's referendum on apartheid

    On 18 March 1992, white South Africans overwhelmingly backed a mandate for political re...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 22, 2024

    Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

    Major Charity Adams was the first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battal...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 19, 2024

    Deadly Everest avalanche

    On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 men, who were carrying suppli...

    10 minutes
    		Apr 18, 2024

    West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

    The 2014 Ebola outbreak devastated West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people over a ...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 17, 2024

    The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

    When the train service between India and Bangladesh was suspended in 1965, following wa...

    9 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

    A group of men known as the ‘Cairo 52’ were arrested in Egypt in May 2001. They were on...

    8 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024