Lady Smith Black Mumbazo

The two Boer republics in the British South African colony managed to coexist kind of well until 1867 when golden diamond mines were discovered. Winston Churchill, who was at this time a journalist, felt this discovery made war between the Boers and the British inevitable. It was under Kitchener's command that the first Boer concentration camps were established. Between June of 1901 and May of 1902, some 28,000 of the 115,000 interned people died in the camps.