Second Boer War concentration camps
internment of civilians by the British in the 1899-1902 African conflict
The British concentration camps during the Second Boer War were British concentration camps in which Boer women and children as well as black South Africans were interned in South Africa. The concentration camps existed from 1899 to 1902. The Black South Africans were not in the same camps as the white people. The conditions for them were harder. Many people died in these camps, Boer as well as Black and Coloured South Africans. The main cause of death was disease.