Emily Hobhouse
(9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) A British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing the deprived conditions inside the British administered concentration camps in South Africa to the attention of the British public, and working to change the conditions. The camps had been built to incarcerate Boer women and children during the Second Boer War and thousands of people died there.
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Biography
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Hobhouse
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
The SA play Dear Mrs Steyn was inspired by and based upon her letters to Mrs Steyn, the wife of the President of the Ortange Free State, during and after the Second Boer War.
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