Dive into the history of the museum and see who are the people behind the success of the Anglo-Boer War Museum.
Dive into the history of the Anglo-Boer War Museum
A society that acts as the liaison between the Museum and the people
See who are the people behind the success of the war museum
Dive into the history of the museum and see who are the people behind the success of the Anglo-Boer War Museum.
Dive into the history of the Anglo-Boer War Museum
A society that acts as the liaison between the Museum and the people
See the people behind the success of the Anglo-Boer War Museum
Read what happened in some of the biggest moments in South African history, where monuments are based and why they exist. Take a walk through history in our Exhibits and ready more about the struggles of the women that lived through the war.
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Read more about what the National Women's Memorial commemorates, as well as about the monument itself.
Take a virtual walk through the Heritage Route
Take a virtual walk through the Heritage Route
Dive into the history of the war
Take a virtual walk through the Heritage Route
Read more about our Collections
Take a walk through history in our Exhibitions
Read more about what the National Women's Memorial commemorates, as well as about the monument itself.
Search our database for more information on the war
Register and search our whole Document and Photo Archive collection.
Read through our Publications & Articles
A meeting point for all research around the war
Search our database for more information on the war
Register and search our whole Document and Photo Archive collection.
Read through our Publications & Articles
The South African War was a conflict that saw all the protagonists deliberately target civilians and is a harbinger of 20th century Total War. Civilians, and their resources, were harnessed to underwrite military operations, combined with scorched earth and the emergence of internment camps, later known as concentration camps. Set against the backdrop of concentration camps in Cuba and the Philippines, genocidal campaigns by Imperial Germany against the Herero people in German South West Africa soon followed in 1906.
Although civilian internment in was not genocidal by design and purpose, the high loss of life and bitterness amongst the Boer descendants shaped the political narrative of 20th century South Africa. Native Refugee Camps, now known as black concentration camps, were far more lethal and designed along a completely different model to that of the Boer camps. Yet the memory of this experience has only in the last two decades entered historical discourse. Drawing on the archaeological record, this paper examines the camps which interned black civilians at Kimberley and Dry Harts, during December 1900 until December 1902. Situated 170 kilometers apart, their identification occurred during 2001-2008.