Episode 233 - Stafford Parker’s Unique Digger’s Republic and Free State/FNB Links
Published: July 27, 2025
Duration: 20:36
This is an episode packed with odd resonances, echoes, large whiskers, many presidents and the origin of a modern bank.
Now that the diamond fields were being exploited, this being1870, a plethora of politicians lined up to claim ownership — the ever-ambitious and unrealistic President Pretorius of the Transvaal among these, who as you heard last episode, had been chased away by the diggers. These were an international lot, not prone to being intimidated by old bearded men from the Transvaal.
His attempt at unilaterally granting drights to the diamond fields to messers Webb, Posno and Munnich ha...
Now that the diamond fields were being exploited, this being1870, a plethora of politicians lined up to claim ownership — the ever-ambitious and unrealistic President Pretorius of the Transvaal among these, who as you heard last episode, had been chased away by the diggers. These were an international lot, not prone to being intimidated by old bearded men from the Transvaal.
His attempt at unilaterally granting drights to the diamond fields to messers Webb, Posno and Munnich ha...