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Bernadine Phillander (41) is grateful to be alive after she survived the Boksburg explosion which killed 41 people on Christmas eve
Bernadine Phillander (41) is grateful to be alive after she survived the Boksburg explosion which killed 41 people on Christmas eve
Rosetta Msimango

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The road to recovery has been slow, hard and painful for the survivors of the gas tanker explosion that killed more than 40 people on Christmas eve in the Plantation neighbourhood of Boksburg in Gauteng, last year.

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