Author: De Swardt, Blackie.
Title: 963 Days at the Junction. A Documented History of Springfontein During the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902.
Description: Self. Springfontein 2010 1st edition. 434pp illustrated b/w softcover. A4 format 1.4kg. A VG-Fine copy. ISBN: 9780620465182 Inscribed by Author 10.08.2010. Springfontein is 150km south-west of Bloemfontein and 38km north-west of Bethulie, the main railway junction into the Orange Free State. 2km south of the town was the Kerkhof concentration camp where nearly a thousand people died between 1900 and 1902. The town was subsequently laid out on the farm of the same name and became a municipality in 1912. This records the towns history of that period in diary day-by-day format.

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