African women on route to a concentration camp in the Orange Free State. British military policy discouraged Black civilians from bringing foodstuffs into the concentration camps to create a situation of desperation, thus inducing the inmates to work for rations. These women carried their only belongings and foodstuffs on their heads and are being ‘shadowed' by a mounted soldier visible on the skyline. Women and children undertook most of the agricultural labour in the concentration camps, later run by the Department of Native Refugees.
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African women on route to a concentration camp in the Orange Free State
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South African History Online. (2011, March 28). African women on route to a concentration camp in the Orange Free State. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0043833
South African History Online (2011) 'African women on route to a concentration camp in the Orange Free State', South African History Online, 28 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0043833 (Accessed: 16 September 2026).
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