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During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal, and the Cape Colony. In February of 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some of the controversial tactics that led to a British victory.
From 1899 to 1902, the Second Anglo-Boer War was fought in South Africa pitting the British against the two Boer republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. This war would become the most destructive modern armed conflict in the country and shape the history of the nation.
The farms of Boers and Africans alike were destroyed, and the inhabitants of the countryside were rounded up and held in segregated concentration camps, often under horrific conditions; several thousand died during their incarceration.
Over 100,000 Boer civilians, mostly women and children, were forcibly relocated into concentration camps, where 26,000 died, mostly by starvation and disease. Black Africans were interned in concentration camps to prevent them from supplying the Boers; 20,000 died. [15] .
The camps were initially called “refugee camps” and later became known as “concentration camps” due to overpopulation. Forty-five camps were built for Boer refugees, while 64 tented camps were built for black Africans.
More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in what’s known as the South African War between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are ...
The concentration camp system caused the widest opprobrium of the second Boer War. In the first half of the 20th century Afrikaaner leaders effectively used the suffering and deaths in...
Camps were established again during the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). At the same time, on another continent, the British used similar camps as a punitive tool in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa.
Dr Spencer Jones speaks about the notorious period in the Boer War when the British authorities introduced concentration camps to separate Boer civilians from guerrilla fighters. Watch the event recording
Kitchener applied a scorched earth policy so that the Boers and local people had no cover and no food. The British also set up some 50 concentration camps. More than 26,000 women and children...