Britain in Pursuit of Gold Southern Africa's History Savaged by British Annexation and War

Britain, in the depths of the 'Great Depression of 1873 to 1896', saw the Gold discovered in Southern Africa as an answer to their economic woes. The British cold-bloodedly engineered a war between the world's largest Empire and a few thousand farmers who only had their faith plus a few mounted civilian defence units. To win the war the British burned the farmer's homes and forcibly moved the wives, children and old people into concentration camps where they lived in tents with minimal food and little medical attention. In the concentration camps, 50% of the Boer child population died.On 17 June 1901 David Lloyd-George, an MP who would later serve as England's Prime Minister, condemned the concentration camps and the terror visited on women and children. He was correct when he said: "A barrier of dead children's bodies will rise between the British and Boer races in South Africa."