Episode 273 - The Mountain of Destiny: Majuba and the Birth of a Nation
History of South Africa podcast | 03.05.2026 14:27
It is not a stretch to say that the defeat by the British at Majuba was also the political birth of the Afrikaner people. While the Great Trek provided the origin story, Majuba provided the validation—the sense that their culture was not only distinct but divinely protected and militarily capable of standing against the greatest empire of the age.
