On 6 August 1901, during the Second Anglo Boer War, Boer forces under Commandant Hans Lotter entered Bethesda Road in Graaff Reinet and ransacked its post office. Four days later, on 10 August, they captured a party of British scouts near the village, and on the evening of 24 January 1902 the post office building, located at the railway station, was destroyed by fire, probably in an act of sabotage.

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