Tonteldoos VI - Jacobs Konsentrasie Kamp Multi-cache

Hierdie is een skat van die Tonteldoosreeks / This is one cache in the Tondeldoos Series.

There are 18 Tondeldoos Caches all over South Africa and in every one you will find a clue in the sense of the name of a well known Afrikaner/Boer. These clues are to be gathered and during the Easter weekend of 2009, in the small town Tonteldoos, Mpumalanga, South Africa, every person who writes in as participant, will receive a code deciphering the clues. The code will give the coordinates of the Great Cache, which will be hidden in the vicinity of Tonteldoos. The rest of the story follows:

In the early days of our country, when the horizon was wide and open, South from the Equator the grass was green. At dusk, as the sun was setting and the herds of cattle were homeward bound, the call of the women, echoed across the land. From the west, the white sails of the ships came, asking of water and food, and to stay for so much more. And so the land that was once free, traded for the ghetto's of the cities..

Mother Africa held, in her belly, many riches of diamonds, gold, coal and precious metals. The people of the land becoming slaves, digging, tunneling into the depths of this beautiful country, to get every bit of the riches it holds. Great open plains, fenced off, so that even the largest of Gods animals would bow under the might of the hunter and his guns. The silence would soon befall the country.

Another century, the picture is much the same. Not long ago, in the land of Milk and Honey, the burgers of two lands, The Orange Free State and the Transvaal , free, happy and living in harmony with each other. The stories of the riches in these two lands, soon befell the ears of the Queen of the Empire over the seas. Her people were sent to investigate and confirm the rumors of many riches.

The Queen was soon to declare war on the burgers. Women and children died in their thousands from disease and starvation, as their husbands, fathers and sons died on the battlefield. Eventually the burgers were to bow down to the pressure, there was no other choice. The Queen was told to take the riches as her own.

However the Queen did not know of one man, Paul Kruger from the Transvaal . He had hidden a large amount of the " Queens gold" before peace was declared. Likewise General De Wet of the Free State had took and also hidden a large amount of gold.

These treasures of gold have to this day not been found.

In the land of the old Transvaal , not far from where this gold is hidden, lies a small town, still living in peace and harmony as it was so many years previously. The small town of Tonteldoos . With its unique fauna and flora, farms and small holdings, peach trees and interesting people, this is truly a town that must be enjoyed. Every year a festival, with its own golden peach brandy can be found, so too this is where the Tinderbox Treasure can be found.

Throughout the land of Milk and Honey, Tinderboxes are hidden. Each containing a clue of the whereabouts of a final treasure. This final treasure will hold the gold that the finder shall give to the Queen. Breaking her thirst for the gold and finally ending the war against the lands of Transvaal and The Orange Free state .

The search for this gold is on! Who will be the one to find the final treasure and bring the peace and harmony of Tonteldoos, back to the land of Milk and Honey?

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Daar is 18 Tonteldoos skatte regoor Suid Afrika en in elkeen 'n leidraad in die vorm van die naam van een of ander bekende Afrikaner/Boer. Hierdie leidrade moet versamel word en gedurende die Paasnaweek 2009 sal daar te die dorpie Tonteldoos , Mpumalanga , Suid Afrika aan elkeen wat daarvoor inskryf 'n kode verskaf word wat deur middel van die leidrade ontsyfer kan word. Daardie kode sal die koördinate aandui van die Groot Skat, wat iewers naby Tonteldoos weggesteek sal wees. Die res van die verhaal volg hierna:

Toe die wêreld hier nog jonk was, en die horison wyd en oop, was dit groen hier in die halfrond, suid van die ewenaar. En in die skemer as die son sak, en die beeste huistoe loop, klink die roepstem van die vroue, oor die heuwels van die land. Toe kom die skepe uit die weste, wit seile oor die see, om te vra vir kos en water, en te bly vir soveel meer; en die land wat een tyd oop was, die land het ons verruil, vir die ghetto’s van die stede, is ons koperdraad gegee.

Daar was rykdom in die maag, van ons moeder Afrika. Diamante, steenkool, goud, edel metaal, en die mense word die slawe hier, want die mense word betaal om te tonnel in die aarde, elke greintjie uit te haal. En die groot en oop grasvlaktes, span dit toe met doringdraad; en van die olifant tot die gemsbok, al die diere moes kom buig voor die mag van die grootwildjagter, voor die mag van sy groot geweer. Totdat net die stilte oorbly. Totdat net die stilte heers…

Ander milieu, selfde prentjie. Nie so lank, lank gelede nie, in 'n tyd toe die wêreld nog jonger was as vandag, ook in die Land van Melk en Heuning, het die burgers van twee landjies, die Oranje Vrystaat en Transvaal, vry, gelukkig en in harmonie met mekaar geleef. Daar was volop minerale in hierdie lande, en die stories oor die mineraalrykdom het die ore van 'n Koningin oor die see bereik, wie haar mense gestuur het om ondersoek in te stel of die stories waar was.

Die Koningin het 'n oorlog teen die inwoners begin, en vroue en kinders het by die duisende omgekom van honger en siekte, terwyl die mans op die slagvelde vermoor is. Uiteindelik het die burgers geen keuse gehad anders as om 'n Vrede met die Koningin te sluit nie. Die Koningin was vertel dat sy dan maar die goud vir haarself kon neem.

Die Koningin het egter nie geweet van ou oom Paul Kruger van die Transvaal , 'n hele klomp goud gaan wegsteek het, voor die vrede bereik was nie. Ook in die Vrystaat het 'n dapper Generaal de Wet met die Slag van Roodewal al die Koningin se goue ponde afgevat en gaan begrawe.

Hierdie skatte van goud is tot vandag toe nog nie gevind nie.

Nie so ver van waar die goud begrawe was nie, in die land van die ou Transvaal , is daar steeds 'n dorpie waar vrede en harmonie heers. Hierdie dorpie se naam is Tonteldoos. Met sy unieke fauna en flora, plase en kleinhoewes, perskeboomrye en interessante mense, is die dorpie inderdaad 'n avontuur om te beleef. Hier word ook jaarliks 'n Plaasfees gehou waar die streek se heerlike perskemampoer geproe kan word. Dit is dan ook hier waar die Tonteldoosskat gevind kan word…

Regdeur die Land van Melk en Heuning is daar tonteldose begrawe. In elke tonteldoos is daar ‘n leidraad wat sal lei na die Skat van Goud. In die een wie die skat vind se hande sal die goud lê, om aan die gruwelike Koningin te gee om sodoende die towerkrag te breek en en haar dors na goud te les sodat die Oorlog teen Transvaal en Vrystaat vir ewig gestaak word.

Die soektog na die Skat van Goud is aan! Wie gaan die een wees wat die skat gaan vind en die vrede en harmonie van Tonteldoos oor die hele Land van Melk en Heuning versprei?

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Jacobs and Wentworth
The Boer Concentration Camps
The Great Boer War 1899-1902
The Natal Battlefields


In close proximity to the Merebank concentration camp, along the Bluff railway line, two further concentration camps were erected for greatly the same reasons as Merebank. The Jacobs camp was erected approximately three kilometers north of Merebank during February 1902. Jacobs was the final Natal concentration camp to close during February 1903 when the last inhabitant, Heila de Beer, aged 15, passed away. During its existence 47 people died and were buried in the Jacobs concentration camp cemetery.

The Wentworth concentration camp opened during March 1902, about 1 kilometer from the Jacobs camp. This camp was one of the first camps to close down during September 1902. Only 17 inhabitants died in the Wentworth camp. Each of these two camps housed 3,000 people. The Jacobs and Wentworth concentration camps were the closest to the ideal concentration camps for the British authorities and reflected all the lessons learned from the camps in the Transvaal and Free State. They were preplanned in totality as small towns with decent housing, schools, hospitals as well as enough equipment and supplies and competent superintendents. This kind of planning made life more bearable for the inhabitants and easier for administration.

Info found at: http://www.warthog.co.za/dedt/tourism/battlefields/conflict/pow4.htm *****
To work out the final coordinates you need to find the following:
S 29 AB.CDE
E 030 FG.HI

A = Month when Joha C Viviers died
B = Day when Luk C Steenkamp died
C = Age of Suz M. Bosman in months - 4
D = Age of Hes H.A. v.d Merwe in days - 15
E = Day when Hes W Schmaal died.

F = Age of Hes D de Beer in years - 30
G = Month when Chris Van-De-Venter died
H = Age of A.J. Pienaar in years – 40
I = Age of Bart W Pieterse in years + 1