BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Farm Details
Name:Sterkfontein
District:Johannesburg
Notes:

No date given; 3 houses; Owners: Lawis Albert, Mrs D Oosthuizen, D J Oosthuizen; sniping; ammunition found [Source: Cd 524: p.17]

No date given; 2 homesteads; Owners: Nan Scheepers, Gart Scheepers; implicated in a murder [Source: Cd 524: p.17]

No date given; Owners: Mrs D Oosthuizen snr, D Oosthuizen (son of the above), L Alberts; we were fired at from these houses, and ammunition was found in all; Mrs D Oosthuizen's house was used as a base by the commando under the late Field Cornet Van Zijl

Owners: H Scheepers, G Scheepers; implicated in a murder [Source: Cd 524: p.18]
Persons on Farm

Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is not responsible for the contents of the database. The help of the following research assistants is gratefully acknowledged: Ryna Boshoff, Murray Gorman, Janie Grobler, Marelize Grobler, Luke Humby, Clare O’Reilly Jacomina Roose, Elsa Strydom, Mary van Blerk. Thanks also go to Peter Dennis for the design of the original database and to Dr Iain Smith, co-grantholder.