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A pandemic atlas: South Africa acts quickly, dodges disaster

by Andrew Meldrum
| December 15, 2020 9:33 PM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a popular cafe in Johannesburg's Soweto area, owner Benedict Somi Vilakazi liked to tell foreign visitors how nearby Vilakazi Street was named after his grandfather, who defied racial discrimination to become one of South Africa's first Black university lecturers.

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