The way governments managed pandemics 140 years apart tells the story of SA
About 140 years ago, from 1882 to 1885, a smallpox epidemic roiled southern Africa. It was another time, I know, but comparing it to Covid-19 is enormously instructive.
Having contained the disease a year earlier, the diamond boom town of Kimberley succumbed to smallpox in November 1883. It started when a group of nine prospective labourers coming from the north arrived ill and feverish at a farm a few miles from town. Kimberley’s civil commissioner appointed a team of six doctors to go immediately to examine them...
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