| Personal Details |
| Name: | Mr C Daneel |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | male |
| Race: | white |
| Occupation: | camp superintendent |
| Notes: | 18/5/1901: RM |
| Unique ID: | 230 |
| Camp History |
| Name: | Vredefort Road NRC |
| Date departure: | 26/6/1901 |
| Date appointed (as staff): | 3/3/1901 |
| Notes: | 3/3/1901: Superintendent, Native Refugees, £200 pa
18/5/1901: Mr Daneel the native supt was living in the white refugee camp. I sent him off to the native camp; he seems quite intelligent.
26/6/1901: Commandant, Vredefort Rd to CSRC: Reference to RC/2749/? 18/6/1901 authorizing Mrs Bouwer and children to live outside the white refugee camp in the native refugee camp, I think it highly undesirable that any white women or children should be allowed to go about as they please outside the wire enclosure of the white refugee camp, Vredefort Road. Information is constantly going out to the Boers from here, and I strongly suspect both C Daniell the native superintendent and his assistant PJ Bouwer of being a medium of communication between the Boers inside and outside. Both of them are constantly in the white refugee camp instead of attending to their business.
However, as ordered by you I have allowed Mrs Bouwer to join her husband.
P Bouwer was on Steinekamps commando and says he gave up his arms at Vredefort Road on 24th May 1900, he has a brother still on commando.
C Daniell was also on commando with the Kroonstad Ambulance.
I would suggest that if it is absolutely necessary to retain these men as superintendent and assistant superintendent of a native refugee camp, it would be to the public advantage if they were transferred to some other district not so well known to them. They know all the people on commando round here very intimately and it is only natural to assume that their sympathies are entirely with them.
29/6/1901: CSRC to Commandant, Vredefort Road: On the principle 'If you suspect a man don't employ him' I have today wired for two men to take the places of Daneel and Bouwer in the NRC and have instructed Mr Brink to have the latter and their families placed in the white camp as soon as the new officials arrive. |
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| Name: | Vredefort Road RC |
| Date arrival: | 26/6/1901 |
| Sources |
| Title: | SRC 09 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 09 |
| Dates: | June - July 1901 |
| Notes: | RC3086, 26/6/1901, Comdt, Vredefort Rd to CSRC and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 02 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 02 |
| Dates: | Feb 1901-7 Mar 1901 |
| Notes: | RC429, 3/3/1901, CM Keighley, DC to CSRC |
| Title: | SRC 07 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 07 |
| Dates: | May 1901 |
| Notes: | RC1938, 18/5/1901: Daller's report on Vredefort Road |
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