From which prison camp did Winston Churchill escape during the Second Boer War?

Winston Churchill escaped from the State Model School in Pretoria during the Second Boer War.

Churchill was working as a war correspondent for the Morning Post when he was captured by Boer forces on 15 November 1899 after an armoured train incident near Chieveley, Natal. He was taken to Pretoria and held with captured British officers in the State Model School, a former educational building used as a prison.

On the night of 12 December 1899, Churchill slipped out of the prison grounds and climbed over a wall or fence. He then travelled on foot and by freight train, eventually reaching the Transvaal and Delagoa Bay Colliery, where an English mine manager helped him hide and escape by train to Portuguese East Africa.

The prison is often called the Staats Model School, its Afrikaans name. “State Model School” is a recognized English rendering, so the stored answer is fair. Ladysmith, Mafeking, and Spion Kop were important Boer War locations, but none was Churchill’s prison.