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      Queenie Grootboom

      Queenie Grootboom

      When Disability Changed Her Life in an Instant, Queenie Grootboom Found the Heart to Keep Going

      by Nothando Mthembu@GoodThingsGuyOctober 22, 2026October 22, 2026 214 0

      Having been part of a disability awareness campaign in 2015, Veteran South African radio personality Queenie Grootboom never imagined that she too would become wheelchair-bound. Yet after facing life-altering spinal…

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