Afrikaner body opposed to changes to Women’s Monument

An Afrikaner body is protesting at the historic Women's Monument in Bloemfontein to demand that the monument remains an Afrikaner symbol. Afrikaner Kultuurbond spokesperson Sam de Klerk says the AKB is concerned about a statement by the Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan on possible changes to the monument to also accommodate black women and children. iAfrica.com quotes De Klerk as saying the announcement has put this cultural heritage of their nation in the fire line. The monument was unveiled in December 1913 in memory of some 27-thousand Afrikaner women and children who died in concentration camps during the second Anglo Boer War.