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Rolling black outs: 12 items you’re going to need

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Load shedding continues unabated for hard-hit South Africans, and is set to get even worse in the coming weeks.

The constant power cuts wreak havoc on our daily lives, affecting how we work, cook, study, live and entertain.

Stage 6 load shedding has become the daily norm and there are predictions that South Africa could reach Stage 8 in the next few days. Not only this, but Stages 9 and 10 are real possibilities as we head further into winter.

While there is nothing we can do about the scheduled outages, there are some things we can do to make life bearable.

South Africans have become pretty organised when dealing with the

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