On the farm Langverwacht there is a monument to the 23 New Zealander soldiers, who died in an encounter with a Boer commando on the night of 23^rd and 24^th February 1902. Sometime in 2000 the monument was destroyed by a falling tree, one of the two oak trees planted around the site of the mass grave. A grass fire had damaged and weakened the old oak. A high wind sometime later did the rest. Built from local stone, cut to shape on the site, the cairn had remained intact for 99 years from 1903 when it was erected. This was my first sight of the ruined structure in 2002.