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.