Emily Hobhouse: Beloved Traitor

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Elsabé Brits. Emily Hobhouse: Beloved Traitor

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I started reading more about her, including books that my wife, Carol, had ordered for me from overseas. The “last straw” was when I read about the ingenious ploughing plan Emily devised to get the defeated burghers of the Transvaal and the Free State back on their feet after the Anglo-Boer War. Besides, it fascinated me that so little was known in South Africa about Emily the liberal socialist, the pacifist and the feminist.

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She also requested rail trucks to take her relief supplies of food and clothing along to the interior, and asked that she be allowed to be accompanied by an Afrikaner woman.

Surprisingly, Milner acknowledged that the scorched-earth policy was a mistake. He had seen women being transported in open railway trucks, and it had left him “uncomfortable”. “Finally he agrees to forward my going around to the camps as a representative of the English movement and with me a Dutch lady whoever I and the people here like to choose as a representative of South Africa …” There was a condition, however: Lord Kitchener, overall commander of the British forces, would have to agree.124

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