Oti Mabuse: Mum set up a dance school to give us opportunities apartheid denied her

After seven years as a professional dancer on Strictly, Mabuse is now a judge on ITV’s Dancing On Ice. Photograph: Zac Cooke/PA

Oti Mabuse has spoken of how her mother created her own dance school in the family’s home town in South Africa to provide her daughters with opportunities that she did not have growing up.

Mabuse, 31, has won the South African Latin American championships eight times and is one of the most successful professionals to have appeared on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which she has won twice.