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More Than A Story

More Than A Story

Written by: Moxi Nicols
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More Than A Story is a podcast that brings Africa’s hidden histories to life through powerful, narrative storytelling. Each season, we dive deep into real events that shaped the continent — stories of survival, resilience, betrayal, belonging, and becoming.


Season One follows the gripping true account of the 1782 Grosvenor shipwreck and the survivors' epic journey along South Africa’s Wild Coast. Told with cinematic detail, rich character insight, and historical context, this is not just a history lesson — it’s a lived experience, retold with empathy and imagination.

Whether you're a history lover, a curious traveler, or someone drawn to the untold, this podcast invites you to walk the forgotten paths of the past and hear the echoes still carried by the land.


New episodes every week.


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  • Wild Legacy: The Making of Kruger National Park
    Jan 15 2026

    Kruger National Park didn’t begin as a sanctuary. It began as a warning. In the late 1800s, South Africa’s wildlife was collapsing under relentless hunting, war, and the belief that nature was limitless. From the first, fragile proclamation of the Sabi Game Reserve in 1898 to the lonely patrols of its first warden, James Stevenson-Hamilton, this story traces how a wounded landscape slowly began to recover. Elephants returned where none had walked for decades. Lions reclaimed silent valleys. And against poaching, politics, and deep public scepticism, the idea of protecting wilderness took hold.

    But Kruger’s story is not one of simple triumph. It is shaped by contradiction, by communities removed in the name of preservation, by changing ideas about predators as “vermin,” by scientific control and hard lessons learned through fire, flood, and loss. From colonial conquest to apartheid, from poaching wars to land restitution and transfrontier conservation, Kruger reflects South Africa’s own turbulent history. This episode explores how the park was made, what it cost, and why its greatest legacy is not perfection, but resilience - the ongoing choice to protect something wild, complicated, and deeply human.

    A big thanks to SergePavkinMusic for providing the soundtrack. You can access his music library here:

    https://www.youtube.com/@SergePavkinMusic/featured

    To get in touch, see references and access additional media and content - visit:

    https://www.morethanastory.co.za

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    54 mins
  • SPECIAL: The Road to G20 JHB 2025
    Nov 21 2025

    In November 2025, Johannesburg will host the first G20 Summit ever held on African soil. This episode traces the remarkable story behind that moment. From South Africa’s long journey out of apartheid isolation to Africa’s decades-long struggle for global representation, we follow the arc that led the world’s most powerful economies to gather in the heart of Gauteng.

    We explore how the G20 was born out of crisis, how it evolved into a central forum of global governance, and why its future now depends on the rising influence of the Global South. As global tensions reshape international politics, Johannesburg becomes more than a venue, it becomes a symbol of a world undergoing profound change.

    This is the story of power, history, and the shifting balance of global influence. And it begins before the motorcades arrive.

    Also a big thanks to SergePavkinMusic for providing the soundtrack. You can access his music library here:

    https://www.youtube.com/@SergePavkinMusic/featured

    To get in touch, see references and access additional media and content - visit:

    https://www.morethanastory.co.za


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    37 mins
  • Boer War: Guerrillas in the Cape
    Nov 14 2025

    A small Boer commando led by Jan Smuts plunges into the Cape Colony, surviving ambush, starvation, and a brutal mountain storm before seizing a British camp in one of the war’s most daring raids. Through the eyes of Deneys Reitz, this episode reveals the grit, tragedy, and unexpected humanity that shaped the guerrilla war.

    Also a big thanks to SergePavkinMusic for providing the soundtrack. You can access his music library here:

    https://www.youtube.com/@SergePavkinMusic/featured

    To get in touch, see references and access additional media and content - visit:

    https://www.morethanastory.co.za

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    44 mins
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