History of South Africa

A long-form historical project exploring South Africa’s past through landscape, climate, movement, power, and people.

This site accompanies the History of South Africa podcast and serves as a permanent archive of essays, timelines, and thematic explorations covering the region from deep prehistory to the modern era.

The emphasis here is on chronology, evidence, and context — resisting simplification, presentism, and polemic in favour of careful narrative history.

Recent essays

More essays are listed in the archive.