Episode 297 - Dinuzulu’s horse riding tours of St Helena and Lobengula loses it

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297 dear listener, is what’s known as a Kaprekar Number - if you square 297 the resulting digits can be split into two parts - right side and left side. If you add up those two parts you get the original number 297 squared is 88, 209. Left part is 88, right part is 209. Add these together and voila! 297, a Kaprekar Number. Maths is fascinating - so too, the story of Zulu king Dinuzulu necklace. IN the annals of historical facts, Dinuzulu’s necklace was claimed to have been found by Robert…