To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… for gold in The South African Republic (Transvaal) and colonial expansion by the subjugation of independent nations. … camps. So, he promptly wrote to Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, requesting an inquiry be instituted by … Sir Montagu Ommaney, the permanent under-secretary at the Colonial Office, responded that it seems undesirable “to …