They were indeed. The Boer war era, The idea was to put all the Boers 9complete with families) in one or two places in order to keep control of them and more importantly the diamond and gold mines. The difference between the ones set up by the British and the Nazis was that the Nazis intended that the inmates would not survive the British ones had the same result but that was not really intentional, As with putting the American Indians onto reservations you overcrowd people and disease takes over and runs riot killing thousands.