They had told each other everything by now. How Katje had grown up in a reeducation camp, because her parents were verkrampte , reactionaries, rather than verligte , liberals. It was not bad as such camps went, she said. The Boers were used to camps. The British had invented them during the Boer War, and in fact the very term "concentration camp" was invented by the British as a term for the place where they concentrated kidnapped Boer civilians. Katje’s father had actually kept up his banking job in the city while rival black factions were busy "necklacing" one another, cramming tires full of petrol over the heads of victims and publicly roasting them alive....