1900 - Skirmish at Zoutpans Drift
1901 - "To the S.A. Distress Fund, Report of a visit to the camps of women and children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies". This report by Emily Hobhouse on concentration camps is published. With regard to the high fatality rate, she wrote, "Numbers crowded into small tents: some sick, some dying, occasionally a dead one among them; scanty rations dealt out raw; lack of fuel to cook them; lack of water for drinking, for cooking, for washing; lack of soap, brushes and other instruments of personal cleanliness; lack of bedding or of beds to keep the body off the bare earth; lack of clothing for warmth and in many cases for decency ..."