SHE moves in perfect time to the beat of the music, the sheer joy she finds from being back on the dance floor etched across her face.
“And it’s all thanks to my positive attitude,” Chantell Hewitt says. “Without it I wouldn’t be dancing today.”
Seven years ago life was very different for the 38-year-old from Bloemfontein. Neurofibromatosis, a rare condition also known as elephant man disease, had ravaged her face, and her right eye was completely obscured by an egg-shaped tumour.
Because of her ongoing health issues she lost her administrative job in the police service and was forced to give up her beloved dancing.
And yet despite her ever-worsening illness and the havoc it
