OTI MABUSE: MY SOUTH AFRICA

BBC1, 9pm/ BBC iplayer

We all know Oti

Mabuse (right) from

Strictly, but hers has been a long journey from a township in

South Africa.

Fresh off her nationwide tour, with a show inspired by her childhood, she’s curious to go back to her homeland – a place she left a decade ago. It’s an emotional visit, beginning at the nursery school in the township where she grew up and where her mum is the principal.

Oti says: “I’m proud to be from this township. It’s not the prettiest township, it’s not the richest or the safest, but the people are happy.”

It’s a country full of contradictions and Oti has a unique perspective, remembering the struggles her family faced under apartheid.

But she meets inspirational people in a country that is changing.