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A question I have is why couldn't the Brits just leave them alone after the first battle and admit defeat? They could have let them be their own states. And my second question is that if the Boers were going to be put in unsanitary and inhumane concentration camps, why put them there in the first place?

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At the end of the war, consequently, almost 100,000 people had died. Most came from troops, and almost 20,000 had died from the concentration camps. The British had won the war and it ended on May 31, 1902.

A peace resignation called the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed and ended the war. It made the Orange Free State and South African Republic part of British military supervision, but there was 3,000,000 British pounds put into reconstructing the aftermath.

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During the war, the Brits had around 500,000 troops deployed while the Boers only had around 88,000. When it started, the British were unprepared. In late 1899 and early 1900s, the Boer front had acquired 3 major British-owned towns. That was the consequence of the Cape Colony leaving the British to join the Boers.

Great Britain called in more troops in early 1900. This allowed them to take back the towns and beat the Boers, taking the Orange Free State's capital area. The people there had their farms burned and families in inhumane places.

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british troops under cover

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https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/aftermath-war#:~:text=The%20Second%20Anglo%2DBoer%20War,with%20Lord%20Kitchener%20in%20Pretoria.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/census/events/britain5.htm#:~:text=The%20war%20began%20on%20October,grant%20civil%20rights%20to%20Africans.

https://www.britannica.com/event/South-African-War

https://www.britannica.com/event/Peace-of-Vereeniging

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Peace of Vereeniging | South Africa [1902]

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Peace of Vereeniging, (May 31, 1902), treaty that ended the South African War (q.v.), or Boer War; it was signed in Pretoria, after initial Boer approval in Vereeniging, between representatives of the British and ex-republican Boer governments. It ended the independence of the South African Republi…

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The war began on October 11, 1899. It was caused due to the Boer people not wanting to give political control to people not from their territory. It was a war between Great Britain and the 2 Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal) and Orange Free State. It was also caused because of it having a rich gold-mining area in the South African Republic.