The Concentration camps were set up during the Boer War to prevent the Boer families from providing support to the Commandos in the field. These camps became places of misery with over 26300 Boers dying of diseases in the poorly managed camps.
The Anglo Boer War Women's Monument opened on 16 December 1913, commemorates the 26370 Boer lives of women and children who died in the concentration camps during the Anglo Boer War of 1899 to 1902.
A detour off the N1 between Cape and Johannesburg to the old diamond mining town of Jagersfontein, 110 km S.W. of Bloemfontein, can be well wort it for the nostalgic