Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3325CB1
    Site Name
    Site of Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp, Uitenhage
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.726395, 25.423544
      Eastern Cape
      • Nelson Mandela Bay
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 11216
      Uitenhage
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      The concentration camp site at Uitenhage was in use from April to October 1902, and was one of the last of about 50 concentration camps that were established during the Anglo-Boer War. Mainly women and children from the Orange Free State were housed here in corrugated iron houses. The reputed house of the Camp Superintendent and other material remains, as well as the graveyard, still exist today.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      A piece of land with the historic concentration camp site thereon, situate in the Municipality and Administrative District of Uitenhage, being a portion of Erf 1, Uitenhage, and now known as Erf 11216, measuring 4,2335 hectares.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      3701
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2022
      Archive Status
      National monument
      3701-2022.pdf (6.23 KB)
      Media
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