/ 20 July 1999

R10m SPENT ON BOER WAR CENTENARY

THE government is to spend R10-million to mark the centenary of the Anglo Boer War. South Africa’s most extensive land war has generally been seen as a battle between the British and the Afrikaners, but it has become increasing evident that the war involved all South Africans and should be remembered by the nation, SABC reported on Sunday. About 20000 black people, for whom the war was a means of employment, are believed to have died during the conflict and in British concentration camps. A flood of tourists are expected to visit the sites of battlefields over the next three years.