Now why would that be Sun?
Basil,
Rumor has it that the Camps during the Boer War were not exactly Pleasure Palaces.
The Boers were winning by their use of Guerrilla Warfare and the British Army resorted to a campaign of Scorched Earth by burning farms and villages and relocating the population to Concentration Camps. All of this being fought over Gold finds in land given to the Boers and a fear they would become wealthy and show allegiance to the Germans.
The British Army created the concentration camps as part of a campaign against Boer guerrillas fighting against the takeover of their independent republic. Civilians were herded into the camps from their farms, but the insanitary conditions cost many their lives as hunger and disease ran rampant. Between June 1901 and May 1902, of the 115,000 people in the camps, almost 28,000 died, about 22,000 of them children. The death toll represented about 10 per cent of the Boer population. About 20,000 black people also died in other camps.