Die Suidlanders wens almal daaraan te herinner dat die 16 Junie as “Konsentrasiekamp dag” herdenk word. Dit was op die 16de Junie 1900 dat die beleid van verskroeide aarde aangekondig was, en dit het aanleiding gegee tot die oprigting van die konsentrasie kampe waar duisende van ons Volksmoeders en kinders gesterf het.

Hierdie dag is een van die mees belangrikste dae wat herdenk moet word in ons Volks geskiedenis.

Dit was die eerste Volksmoord op die Boerevolk.

Die Suidlanders wens te versoek dat alle Suidlanders so vêr moontlik op die dag blomme-kranse sal plaas by konsentrasie kampe in elkeen se omgewing.

“Whereas small parties of raiders have recently been doing wanton damage to public property in the Orange River Colony and South African Republic by destroying railway bridges and culverts and cutting the telegraph wires, and whereas such damage cannot be done without the knowledge and connivance of the neighbouring inhabitants and the principal civil residents in the districts concerned,

Now, therefore, I, Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty’s Troops in South Africa, warn the said inhabitants and principal civil residents that, whenever public property is destroyed or injured in the manner specified above, they will be held responsible for aiding and abetting the offenders. The houses in the vicinity of the place where the damage is done will be burnt and the principal civil residents will be made prisoners of war.”

Proclamation 5 of 1900, issued by Lord Roberts on 16 June 1900 (now Concentration Camp Day), paving the way for the atrocities against Boer children and women during the rest of the war (the First Boer Genocide).