Cape Town woman with rare autoimmune disease struggles to perform daily tasks due to hardening skin | You

Ilze Groenewald has scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease that causes hardening of the skin and affects the internal organs. | YouMagazine

Ilze Groenewald was diagnosed with scleroderma in 2011. The condition has badly affected her skin.

The words of a Lionel Richie song drift cheerily through from the kitchen: “Oh what a feeling, when you’re dancing on the ceiling.” For Ilze Groenewald, dancing is a distant dream, a memory from another life when pain and stiffness weren’t her constant companion.Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. You can cancel any time.

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