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Monument/Statue/Memorial Women's Memorial (Emily Hobhouse)

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Located in South Africa :: Free State :: Bloemfontein
Category: Attraction :: Monument/Statue/Memorial

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The Women's Monument or Vrouemonument in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is a monument commemorating the suffering of some 27,000 Boer women and children who died in British concentration camps during the Boer War. The Monument is a Provincial Heritage Site in the Free State. The monument was designed by a Pretoria architect, Frans Soff, and the sculpting by Anton van Wouw. It consists of an obelisk about 35m in height and low, semi-circular walls on two sides. A central bronze group, sketched by Emily Hobhouse and depicting her own experience of 15 May 1901, is of two sorrowing women and a dying child in the Springfontein camp. The monument was unveiled on 16 December 1913. Thirteen years later, Emily Hobhouse's ashes were ensconced at the foot of the monument. Also beside the monument are the graves of Christiaan de Wet, Rev. J.D. Kestell, President of the Orange Free State Martinus Steyn, and his wife. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia).

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Address : Bloemfontein, 9300, Free State, South Africa

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