At the end of May 1902 the Boers lost their Republics and their freedom, defeated by genocide that had exterminated about 50% of the Boer child population.
Yesterday, May 27, 2012, at various cemeteries of the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War, especially at Balmoral, Heidelberg, Krugersdorp and Klerksdorp, some Boers have remembered their dead, and their sacrifice for freedom.