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Date: 1940s Type: Gallery Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 29°24'29.30" S 25°00'27.00" E Alt: 1187m

During the Second World War a large internment camp was established at Koffiefontein, in which 2000 Italian prisoners of war and 800 South African internees (including B. J. Vorster, later Prime Minister) were detained. The portraits displayed here are of the Axis leaders, painted by internees of the prison.