Although she was a British citizen, Emily Hobhouse has become an honorary South African through her selfless and courageous actions, which exposed the inhumanity of concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war Fantastiese Vroumens!

Emily Hobhouse was a Cornish campaigner and activist, most famous for bringing the appalling conditions of the British concentration camps to the attention of the British public during the Boer War. She also worked to improve the condition

Christiaan_De_Wet - This Day in History: Aug The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends

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this Day in History: Oct Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the Second Boer War is born

South Africa: A Boer Girl’s Memories of the Boer War and concentration camps

Jopie Fourie: Ná sy dood was Fourie ’n martelaar. Smuts het vir sy ongenaakbaarheid betaal deurdat Fourie se dood ’n groot rol in die verkiesing van 1948 gespeel het toe Smuts se Suid-Afrikaanse Party deur die Nasionale Party verslaan is.

Jopie Fourie sluit na die oorlog aan by die Rebellie teen Louis Botha om SWA binne te val. Genl Smuts weier om petisies vir begenadiging te ontvang vir sy teregstelling. Hy sterf voor vuurpeleton 20/12/1914. Die volgende aanhaling van Jopie "Ek kan nie insien waarom ons vir Engeland se eer moet veg nie. Wanneer ons die moord van Slagtersnek nagaan en dink aan die 30 000 vroue en kinders wat vermoor is, sien ek nie waarom ek Engeland moet help om sy eer omhoog te hou nie."

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Anglo Boere Oorlog/Boer War HEILBRON Kamp/Camp Memorial The camp had 3986 prisoners of whom 1124 died in captivity.

This Day in History: Aug The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends

CHRISTIAAN FREDERICK BEYERS Is in Stellenboch gebore en geskool en trek later na Transvaal (ZAR) waar hy hom bekwaam as ‘n prokureur met ‘n praktyk in Boksburg. Hy ontvang Burgerstatus en verteenwoordig Transvaal in rugby. Hy het as ‘n toegewyde en volhardende patriot ‘n kortaf dinamiese en soms ontwykende persoonlikheid gehad. Toe die Anglo-Boereoorlog in 1899 uitbreek veg hy as ‘n gewone burger in al die groot Natalse veldslae.

Second Boer War - ABW- A Transit camp for Prisoners of War near Cape Town during the war. Prisoners were then transferred for internment in other parts of the British Empire.