Opening schools is a risk, but a calculated one
28 June 2020 - 00:00
"It came for the young maidens, it came for the grooms. It burned out the elders and finished the youth." These are the words of composer Reuben Tholakele Caluza from his song Influenza 1918, recorded in the 1930s. It was the composer's requiem to the dead as the Spanish flu epidemic claimed 300,000 lives in SA...
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