Abstract
On 11 October 1899 hostilities commenced between the former British Empire and the two Boer republics, namely the South African Republic and Orange Free State Republic. The South African War (1899-1902) was a conflict that saw the targeting of civilians by all sides throughout the conflict and was a harbinger of 20th century Total War, where both civilians and their resources would be harnessed to support military operations. Set against the backdrop of concentration camps in Cuba and the Philippines, it was soon followed by genocidal campaigns by Imperial Germany against the Herero people in German South West Africa in 1906 (Nault, 2012)...