Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse will brighten our screens again in the new season starting next week – but she recalls a far bleaker time growing up under apartheid in South Africa.
Motsi, 41, has told how she was subjected to racist slurs at the convent school where she was educated while growing up near Pretoria with family including ex-Strictly dancer sister Oti.
The mum-of-one said: “I lived under apartheid until the age of nine, a very scary time. We lived in a Black-only suburb and I didn’t speak English when I first went to school.
