Upwards of 26,000 Boer women and children died in British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.

The growing number of Boer refugees resulted from British destruction of civilian property and a protracted Boer guerilla campaign leading to the setting up of camps in Mafeking in July 1900. Camps were also set up in Bloemfontein and Pretoria.

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