/ 25 January 2023

How load-shedding hurts people with disabilities

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There has been a 40% increase in queries for boxes at IBV International Vaults since January last year as cases of housebreaking rise. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
People with hearing, breathing and mobility disabilities and who depend on devices powered by electricity ‘have been immobilised’

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