People with hearing, breathing and mobility disabilities and who depend on devices powered by electricity ‘have been immobilised’ . Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
As load-shedding ramped up, Anne McCrindle was woken by the sounds of a beeping alarm warning her that the eight-hour battery for the ventilator that helps her quadriplegic husband, Brian, to breathe, was going flat.
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