Emily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War

Date: 24 Jan 1901
Updated: 24 Jan 2020

Emily Hobhouse by Henry Walter Barnett - National Portrait Gallery - photograph uploaded on Wikipedia

Emily Hobhouse, an English philanthropist and social worker who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics during the Second Anglo Boer War, reported to the British government that she found 2 000 women and children in shocking circumstances in the British concentration camp at Bloemfontein. The British government was unsympathetic to the plight of the prisoners and the dire circumstances continued. It was estimated that more than 27 000 people in White camps and more than 18 000 inhabitants of Black camps had died in captivity during the war.

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Emily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011217

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South African History Online. "Emily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011217.