Brandfort
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Brandfort, officially renamed Winnie Mandela in 2021, is a small agricultural town in the central Free State province of South Africa, about 60 km northeast of Bloemfontein on the R30 road. The town s
Brandfort concentration camp
Angel statue in front of Dutch Reformed Church in Brandfort
Second Boer War
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The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.
Brandfort
…By the late 19th century, the town had established institutions, such as schools, a magistrate's court, and basic municipal infrastructure. During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the British authorities built a concentration camp in and around Brandfort to house Boer civilians, mostly women and children, as well as a separate…
A typical British soldier. Corporal Alexander Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
A sketch showing the arrest of Leander Starr Jameson after the failed Jameson raid, in 1896
Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)