In “The Garden of Evening Mists”by Tan Twang Eng , one of the main characters, Magnus Pretorius, was a veteran of the Anglo-Boer War . These are the less graphic and harrowing photographs.
Lord Kitchener was a war criminal. He was never stripped of this title neither have I ever seen an apology of sorts.
If you can stomach it watch the photographs. This is no longer taught in schools – but of course!
Just Fletcher 
May 09, 2018 @ 15:39:36
Dis nog nie eers die ergste foto’s wat daar is nie! Geheues is baie kort as dit kom by die onreg wat aan SuidAfrikaners gedoen is deur die Engelse.
May 10, 2018 @ 06:31:03
Dis so waar. Die ergste is dat dit nooit in dieselfde asem as die holocaust genoem word nie en dat die Britse media wou uitmaak dat Kitchener n held was. Maar nou dar al die boeke met feite al verskyn het is dit verseker dat van die troepe oorlogmisdadigers was en dit moes selfs van die Engelse op die ou end erken. Dan is daar die storie van Sudan wat ook toegesmeer is. En die malaysiers soos Tan Twang eng onthiu ook baie goed wat die Engelse aan hulle gedoen het. Ek jhet n deeglike sturdie hiervan gemaak en wyd gelees vir my dissertasie.
May 10, 2018 @ 11:39:23
Interessant dat party uitwissings as minder belangrik beskou word. Dit was mos dieselfde met Ruanda se nagmerrie.
May 10, 2018 @ 13:49:17
Een van my heel bste boeke. Ek dink ek moet hom weer lees.
May 10, 2018 @ 13:19:20
Die probleem bly dat mense nie hulle geskiedenis ken nie en dat die media hulle eie siening bevorder. Ek is nie in die minste verbaas dat daar soveel vals nuss in omloop is nie. En moenie politici weggooi nie, hulle het blykbaar nooit geskiedenis geleer nie. So daar waar jy die meeste lesers kan kry sal jy die meeste bohaai maak.
May 10, 2018 @ 13:32:03
Hou aan om die leuen te verkondig en dit word naderhand die waarheid.
May 10, 2018 @ 13:40:30
Exactly. Ek sien hulle gaan nou The Garden of Evening Mists verfilm.
xxx
May 10, 2018 @ 13:47:38
Ek het nie die boek gelees nie…het gou gaan Google. Lyk baie interessant en na goeie fliekmateriaal. Gaan hom gou koop op my kindle.
May 10, 2018 @ 14:52:43
Ek kan die boeke wat ek koop met 6 mense deel as jy toelaat sal ek dit vir jou stuur per epos.
May 10, 2018 @ 15:08:47
Baie dankie, dit sal nou wonderlik wees. My adres is
May 10, 2018 @ 15:12:18
My eposadres begin met chemcons…
May 10, 2018 @ 15:17:20
May 09, 2018 @ 17:03:09
I think I’ll pass, if you don’t mind. I’ve seen enough of suchlike in the past.
Nice to see you posting again, albeit a bit f a grim one.
Hope all’s well in your neck of the woods?
May 10, 2018 @ 06:37:29
Winter is coming and the dogs and cape parrots are eating the pecan nuts all day long. Wish I had you photographic talent for taking photos of these but I do not really deserve a better camera. With sound recording of course because you can hear these beautiful birds.
(As for my blog, do not forget that I taught history at Marist Bros many many moons ago. 🙂 )
May 09, 2018 @ 19:30:43
If the full history of the period is considered, and particularly from the personal experiences of family members on both sides of the conflict, a rather different picture emerges. Sins were of omission and bungling administration rather than commission. A response to the so successful Commando tactics led to this reaction. The Boer woman (and even older children) had become supporters and even combatants, and provided havens for those returning from raids. Kitchener and his men eradicated and displaced the ants’ nests, but did not deliberately eradicate the ants.
The activists provided the support which should have been there all along, but had been denied by bumbling bureaucracy.
May 10, 2018 @ 06:46:01
Sure I did just that, considering the full history of the period for my dissertation with hundreds of references. . You say Women and children became supporters, is that not exactly what happens in every single war, why support the enemy? Is that reason to throw them in a concentration camp and feed them glass? This is a proven fact. Look at the mortality rate. That should tell you something.
But the history books are written by the victors as Churchill said never objective and not always factual.
May 10, 2018 @ 11:37:37
War is evil. Women and children being bombed to bits without even the excuse that they were providing ‘cover’ for men on covert operations is equally shocking. Also, look at the record of other ‘concentration camps’, notably those of the Japanese or Germans. Being employed or put in charge of those seems to allow the scum of any race to rise to the top. The glass and the mortality rates were not policy, and the veracity of documents trying to prove they were is invariably questionable.
May 10, 2018 @ 13:20:39
Interesting book I came across was Unconditional Hatred by Russell Grenfell, R.N. (Retired Captain in the British Navy)
May 10, 2018 @ 18:34:49
It is interesting, indeed. I found it amazing that just after being introduced to Daleen Matthee’s concept ‘die bloubokkie se gal sit nie in sy kop nie’ by de Wets Wild, here are other instances by the score.
May 22, 2018 @ 17:29:14
“A turning point in the death rate in the Boers camp came about by November 1901, after Emily Hobhouse of the Fawcett Ladies Commision revealed the conditions in the camps to the British public.” ► Thank God she did!
May 27, 2018 @ 07:32:57
You are correct . She was an absolute angel . We will never forget the work she did. xxx
Aug 18, 2018 @ 21:17:58
Just popping in to say Hi!
Hope everything is OK in your neck of the woods.
Aug 19, 2018 @ 04:12:21
All fine thanks for asking. Had a robbery but this is S A 😣
Aug 19, 2018 @ 17:23:03
Yeah …. this is SA.
Long as you’re all right.
Aug 19, 2018 @ 17:25:36
Yeah I’m ok, they caught me unaware. When they walked in I asked who the hell are you and they replied we are robbers. So South African .
Aug 19, 2018 @ 17:45:19
Fortunately you were harmed.