Schoemanpark Golf Club

Rain on Bloemfontein Golf Course

Women's Monument to (25,000!) Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp Victims (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

(Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa)

The first concentration camps were in ~1900 and almost exclusively White-on-White. Did you know that? Neither did I.

In Bloemfontein South Africa, just 20-30 years after their defeat/surrender in the Anglo-Boer War, the (mostly Dutch-derived, the first boat-full of them having arrived in 1652, ~250 years prior!) Afrikaner Boer (meaning farmer) people still living there set up this Women's Monument to remember the (mostly) women and kids who died of starvation, thirst and/or sickness in British-run concentration camps. (I s$%t you not!)

See the Boer fighters were organized into essentially-guerrilla commando militias. And they kept kicking the butts of the British who out-numbered and out-resourced them 10-to-1.

But while they were away out butt-kicking someplace, the wives were back on the farms taking care of things. So the British said screw this, and just burned/dynamited the farms, killed the livestock, and took the wives and kids hostage in these concentration camps.

This unplugged the Boer fighters provisions-wise, but that wasn't really the whole plan.

Taking the wives and kids hostage in this way, and passive-aggressively allowing them to die-off in bureaucratic fashion (Oh dang, we ran out of food for the prisoners again. --sound familiar?) not just humiliated the men emotionally and spiritually (worse than unbelievers, right?), but of course gave them dang good reasons to give up and surrender, and quickly, which they did.

You might just have to agree that genocide worked. But try not to think about it.

No wait. I mean: YES PLEASE DO try to think about it!

(And what if they'd thought of this when fighting General Washington and his people in the Revolutionary War, hmm?)

Oliewenhuis Art Museum and Naval Hill | Bloemfontein, South Africa

Great places to explore in Bloemfontein and they're completely free. I really enjoy seeing zebras up-close without even planning for it. The museum is small but full of amazing arts. Very interesting stuff there.

Woodland Hills Golf Course Fly Over All holes

Woodland Hills Golf Course. Eagle, NE 68347. 402-475-4653 woodlandhillsgolf.com Nebraska's highest rated 18 Hole Championship Golf Course.

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OLIEWENHUIS Art Museum Bloemfontein - Works exhibited in 2007 and 2009

A selection of Paintings, Sculptures, Graphics by South African artists from the PELMAMA PERMANENT ART Collection in Bloemfontein

Shoprite Checkers OFM Chip 4 Charity 2019

The 2019 Shoprite Checkers OFM Chip 4 Charity took place at the Bloemfontein Golf Club on March, 1. R225 000 was raised for Child Welfare Bloemfontein & Childline Free State as well as Reach for a Dream. Thank you all who participated. Read more:

LIVE STEAM: SAR CLASS 23 NO 3266

SAR Class 23 no 3266 was doing duty at Modenso Park, Bloemfontein on Sunday 15 April 2018. After a derailed front bogie, she was good to go again

SOUTH AFRICAN TRAINS: CLASS 16DA NO 877

This a live steam model of class 16DA no 877. The video was taken at Modenso Park in Bloemfontein on Sunday 20th January 2018.

ORANGE DIESEL

MODENSO PARK. This is the newest locomotive at Modenso Park: Bloemfontein Model Engineering Society. It was build by Wessie van der Westhuizen. It has a Co-Co wheel arrangement with a two stroke petrol engine

PELMAMA at Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2007 Bloemfontein opening 1

PELMAMA at OLIEWENHUIS Art Museum Bloemfontein - guests arriving for the opening on 9th July, 2007

President Zuma unveils the Former President Mandela's statue

President Jacob Zuma unveiled Former President Nelson Mandela's statue in Bloemfontein.