The conflict is commonly referred to simply as “the Boer War” because the First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) was a much smaller conflict. Boer (meaning "farmer") is the common name for Afrikaans See more

Background
The southern part of the African continent was dominated in the 19th century by a set of struggles to create within it a single unified state. In … See more

The term "concentration camp" was used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during this conflict in the years 1900–1902, and the term grew in prominence during this period.
The camps had originally been set up by the British Army as " See more

The origins of the war were complex and stemmed from more than a century of conflict between the Boers and Britain. Of immediate … See more

The war had three phases. In the first phase, the Boers mounted preemptive strikes into British-held territory in Natal and the See more

The policy on both sides was to minimise the role of nonwhites, but the need for manpower continuously stretched those resolves. At the … See more

The Second Boer War cast long shadows over the history of the South African region. The predominantly agrarian society of the former See more