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needed examination (page 9 of her report).
Emily Hobhouse tried to visit South Africa again in October 1901 but was arrested and
compelled to return to England at once. Her cause was widely publicised as a result and
improvements in the camps followed. After the war she visited South Africa again and raised funds
for the support of the poverty-stricken and in 1905 opened a school to teach spinning and weaving at
Philippolis. She passed her final years in a house in Cornwall purchased by funds raised from the
Afrikaner nation and died on 8 June 1926. Her ashes were buried in Bloemfontein on 27 October
1927 at the foot of the Women’s Memorial, a statue inspired by her description of a child’s death at
Springfontein in May 1901, the unveiling of which she was not, through illness, able to attend on 16
December 1913. In the speech read for her she said: “Does not justice bid us remember today how
many thousands of the dark race perished also in the Concentration Camps in a quarrel that was not
theirs?. . . The plea of Abraham Lincoln for the black comes echoing back to me: ‘They will probably
help you in some trying time to come to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom’.” This
passage was omitted from the commemorative issue of Die Volksbladon 13 December 1963.
See also:
Concentration Camps, Black; Concentration Camps, White; Fawcett, Mrs Millicent Garrett;
Documents: Hobhouse, Emily, Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape
and Orange River Colonies,London, Friars Printing Association, 1901.
Reference:
Hobhouse, Emily, The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell (London, Methuen, 1902); Jacobs, E.,
Emily Hobhouse (Bloemfontein, War Museum of the Boer Republics, no date); Lee, Emanoel,
To The Bitter End (London and New York, Viking, 1985); Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992); Pretorius, Fransjohan, Life on
Commando during the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1999);
van Reenen, Rykie, Emily Hobhouse: Boer War Letters (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau,
1984).
Holkrantz, Action at,
6 May 1902
At the end of April 1902 the Boers operating in south-eastern Transvaal and north-eastern Natal took
action against the Zulu, razing their homes and taking their sheep and cattle. The abaQulusi chief,
Sikhobobo, retaliated. Of the seventy Boers attacked to repossess the cattle, fifty-six were killed and
a similar number of the 300–strong Zulu force also died. The incident added to the pressures on the
Boers to make peace before, as they saw it, the black Africans became an even greater threat.
Boer activity in the Vryheid district increased in early 1902 and Major-general Bruce Hamilton
came to Vryheid with a large force supplemented with a Zulu impi.The attempts to round up the Boer
commandos were unsuccessful, and the operation ceased. The abaQulusi, who had provided useful
information about the
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