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The Vrouemonument (Women's Monument) in Bloemfontein, Free State, was inaugurated on 16 December 1913, not 1900. It commemorates the suffering and deaths of approximately 27,000 Boer women and children who died in British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The monument was designed by architect Frans Soff and features a 36.5-meter-tall obelisk made of sandstone, with a bronze group sculpture by Anton van Wouw depicting a woman and dying child at its base. The site also includes a memorial wall listing the names of the deceased, and a museum that opened in 1914.

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