Maggie Jooste 
Maggie: My Life in the Camp 
A young girl’s remarkable Anglo Boer War story

Maggie was only 13 years old when the Anglo-Boer War broke out and irrevocably changed her life. After months of house arrest in the family’s home in Heidelberg in the Transvaal, Maggie, her mother and younger siblings are sent to a concentration camp in Natal. In the camp, they experience hunger, deprivation and loss, but also surprising acts of kindness from some British soldiers. This very personal account tells a story of hardship, but also one of humanity and friendship across enemy lines.

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Maggie Jooste was an Afrikaner teenage girl during the Anglo-Boer War. She and her five younger siblings were sent to concentration camps in Natal. She wrote a book about her life and experiences in the war, but the manuscript was left forgotten on a book shelf. 57 years later it was rediscovered by her family and published for the first time.