Flu pandemic reflected inequality
Feb 06, 2021
3 minutes
SHAUN SMILLIE
SUPPLIED
REUTERS
WILLS Bunu probably knew some of the soldiers who stepped off the train at the Queenstown station.
They had returned at a time when the mighty German army was on the run, but there would be no celebration that October.
With those troops came a virus that soon would kill hundreds of thousands of South Africans and leave millions more dead across the globe.
It struck on October 10, 1918, not long after those soldiers had returned, when the first Bunu family member, 25-year-old Nosamon Bunu,
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