(excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community in South Africa’)
Between 1899 and 1902, several Greeks took part in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Some were imprisoned in concentration camps while others experienced the economic consequences. Many had to settle for meager wages and were obliged to live in the poorer suburbs and work from 5am to 12pm, seven days a week as travelling hawkers or small shopkeepers. Others like K. Rontiris, P. Dorovinis, P. Karamadoukis, N. Karamadoukis and Ioannis Antoniou, were forced to fled Transvaal, leaving behind their property. At the end of the war they applied for compensation but the British refused to give them anything.
