The British government established colonial governments for Boer territory captured from the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, creating, respectively the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony.
Flag of the Orange Free Colony.
Both are now part of South Africa.
On the same day, Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies for the United Kingdom, stated in the House of Commons that the British concentration camps in South Africa were "the only humane alternative to leaving the women and general on the 'desert veld', which in fact is where they lived in the first place and where they would have been better left.
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