After more than two hundred days under siege, Mafeking stood exhausted but unbroken.
Food was running short. Tempers were fraying. The strain of constant shelling and uncertainty weighed heavily on soldiers and civilians alike. Yet the most dramatic days of the siege still lay ahead.
In this concluding episode, we witness the daring Boer assault led by Sarel Eloff, the fierce fighting that erupted in the streets of Mafeking, and the final race to relieve the town. We explore how a remote settlement on the edge of the Kalahari became a symbol of imperial defiance, triggering scenes of celebration across Britain that gave the English language a new word: “Mafficking.”
The siege is over.
The legend is only beginning.
