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In a Time of Plague: Memories of the 'Spanish Flu" Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa
Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2018, second series, no.50, hardcover, illustrated, index, 193 pages, condition: new.
The author, Howard Phillips, Emeritus Professor of History at UCT, gives a unique contribution to South Africas history. Glimpses into medical beliefs of the time as well as religious healers and rituals in this time of crisis. This is a moving account of this tragic event in South Africas history.