Human bones, skull, belt found in yard of Deelkop farm, Brandfort, Free State: may be from Anglo-Boer War era?

SAPS sergeant Ian Gaobepe confirms find of Human bones, skull in yard of Deelkop Farm, Brandfort, Free State ------------ (archeologists may also be interested: this is located near the Boer concentration camp, the British colonial hospital and an Anglo Boer war battle field from 1902) ---------- SAPS sergeant Ian Gaobepe confirmed to the Daily Sun newspaper that human Bones, skull and a belt were found in a sewer beneath the yard of Deelkop farm just outside Brandfort Free State where Mrs Makamohela Dala, 29 has been living for the past two years. She raised the alarm when human bones were found after a truck ran over a sewer-pipe. She told the Daily Sun of her belief that her 'twin-babies were cursed because of the bones." ------------------------------------- Daily Sun (July 8 2013) - Makamohelo doesn't believe in evil curses. But what she found in the canvas bag in the manhole of a sewer in her yard made her scream with terror . . .She believes she now knows why her twin babies would never stop crying: Makamohelo took the canvas bag out of the manhole. Inside the bag was a belt and human bones! Makamohelo Dala (28) has been living in the yard of the Deelkop farm, outside Brandfort in the Free State, for two years.She couldn't understand why her babies have been behaving strangely for the last nine months."They would scream all day long as if they were in pain," she said. "But when I took them to the clinic they were fine." But only until she came home. "Then the screaming would start again," she said."If I took them to my mother's house they would also be okay - but at my own house they would start screaming again."On Thursday, a truck delivering feed drove over the manhole cover in front of her house and broke the lid. After the truck had been moved, Makamohelo looked inside the manhole - and made her gruesome discovery. "I wanted to check what was inside there," she told Daily Sun."When I saw bones and a belt and a jacket I started to scream. The driver and I called the cops." On Friday, the cops investigated and found a human skull. The shocked mother believes these bones could be what caused her twins to have sleepless nights. Cops took the bones for a post mortem. "I don't believe in evil spirits but I was thinking I should talk to sangomas to find out what is going on," she said. "I am very relieved that the mystery of my crying twins has been solved." Police spokesman Sergeant Ian Gaobepe said after the human bones were found on Thursday they investigated the sewer because they expected to find other bones."We found the skull on Friday. The bones have been sent for post mortem and our investigation will continue," said Gaobepe. ------------ http://dailysun.mobi/news/read/1024/sewer-bones-curse-my-kids/category:2 --------------- http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=389602&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389 ---------------- Archeologist may also take an interest in these bones: this farm and others surrounding Brandfort, Free State where the skull and bones, with a belt, were found, was the site of a British army's concentration camp for Boer Women and Children 1898-1902: It also was near the site of a former British Colonial Military Hospital, where Dutch Boer-War volunteer Cornelis Van Gogh, brother of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, died after he was injured. He fought on the Boer side. His remains were buried in the hospital yard but were never found. (pictures with URL links to historical documents form the Van Gogh family archives are attached) ------ http://decampcourant.arkpark.net/brandfort2.htm)