Initially, the publishers of Hobhouse's reports refused to publish the photograph. The image was released with the detail that it was taken when van Zyl and her mother entered the camp. Chamberlain was quoted in
The Times on 5 March 1902, saying that Lizzie's mother was prosecuted for mistreatment.
Emily Hobhouse investigated the case and was unable to find any evidence of a case or the prosecution of Lizzie's mother for neglect. She located the photographer, a man named de Klerk, who was also a camp inmate at the time, and de Klerk stated that the photograph was taken two months after Lizzie had arrived at the camp, not when they had just arrived. == References ==