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Motsi Mabuse
South African
Dancer
Born:
Apr 11
,
1981
Dance
Life
Me
People
Skin
You
One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.
Motsi Mabuse
Life
My Life
South Africa
Skin
Everywhere
All Your Life
Point
Points
Colour
Main
Fairness
Because
Coming
Been
South
Huge
Unfairly
Africa
Being
Your
Treated
Blackpool is absolutely huge in Strictly but when you come from South Africa and you have your first impressions and you arrive in Blackpool, well it's different. It's different let's put it that way. But what I'll also say, if you walk into the ballroom it's absolutely spectacular.
Motsi Mabuse
You
Walk
First
South Africa
Strictly
Way
Say
Absolutely
Put
Come
First Impressions
Also
Well
Arrive
South
Ballroom
Huge
Impressions
Africa
Different
Your
Spectacular
I know how it feels to work hard and to work with a celebrity.
Motsi Mabuse
Work
Work Hard
Feels
Know
How
Celebrity
Hard
I have found clarity in my head and heart from being a mum.
Motsi Mabuse
Heart
Clarity
Head
Being
Found
Mum
Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!
Motsi Mabuse
Dance
Master
Big
Programmes
Strictly
There is a word in German, called gerechterweise, which means fairness. I need to be fair, it's just the part of my personality.
Motsi Mabuse
Personality
Word
Part
Fair
Fairness
German
Just
Which
Means
Need
I always say to my friends and my family, 'Let us live in a space that if we never see each other again we don't have bad energy there.'
Motsi Mabuse
Family
Space
Energy
Live
Other
Say
Bad
See
Never
Always
Friends
Again
Us
Each
Let Us
I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.
Motsi Mabuse
Daughter
Skin
Something
Colour
Feel
She
Because
Want
Ever
Her
To feel like someone is excluded is something I'm very sensitive about. I'd never want any human being to feel that they are not welcome because of a certain thing, whether it's religion, sexual orientation, their sex or their skin colour.
Motsi Mabuse
Religion
Welcome
Human Being
Sex
Skin
Sexual
About
Someone
Something
Colour
Never
Feel
Excluded
Like
Because
Very
Any
Human
Being
Want
Whether
Sensitive
Certain
Orientation
Thing
In Germany, you have to see that there are not a lot of black people in the media. I am a tiny bit of colour on German TV and there are a lot of kids who write to me.
Motsi Mabuse
Me
You
People
I Am
Black
Bit
Kids
TV
See
Write
Colour
Am
Lot
German
Germany
Tiny
Who
Media
My favourite part of Christmas is being together as a family.
Motsi Mabuse
Christmas
Family
Together
Favourite
Part
Being
Our parents made a lot of sacrifices because dancing is not the cheapest sport. The dresses are expensive, so my mum learned to sew, and she started a catering company to pay for the lessons and the travel abroad for competitions.
Motsi Mabuse
Travel
Made
Parents
Pay
Our
Dancing
Sew
Dresses
Abroad
Sacrifices
Cheapest
Catering
Sport
She
Learned
Because
Lot
Expensive
Lessons
Company
Mum
Started
Competitions
I am absolutely overjoyed to be joining 'Strictly.' I have so much respect for the other judges and hope to add my own bit of sparkle to the show.
Motsi Mabuse
Hope
Respect
I Am
Own
Add
Other
Strictly
Bit
My Own
Joining
Absolutely
Judges
Am
Sparkle
Much
Show
In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.
Motsi Mabuse
Life
School
Walk
Dance
Around
Normal
Normal Life
Just
Mum
The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.
Motsi Mabuse
Human Being
World
Dance
Accepted
Felt
Human
Being
Where
The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!
Motsi Mabuse
God
Me
Words
Speak
Language
Focus
Soften
Say
Has-Been
Find
More
Had
Like
Also
Because
Stiff
Issue
Been
Years
German
Quite
Oh
Oh My God
Want
Biggest
Much
Speaking
English
Describe
Now
Tone
Started
Tongue
My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.
Motsi Mabuse
Time
Daughter
Every
Every Time
Television
TV
Only
Sees
Like
She
Because
Screen
Anywhere
Mum
Mummy
Her
Watch
Thinks
My daughter does not travel with me. She has a much more stress-free life at home with her daddy.
Motsi Mabuse
Life
Home
Me
Travel
Daughter
More
She
Does
Much
Daddy
Her
In a way, it is easier to be the younger sibling, as the older one has to pave the way.
Motsi Mabuse
Older
Way
Easier
Younger
Pave
Sibling
I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.
Motsi Mabuse
Life
Time
Try
See
Having
Lightness
Up
Hard
Hard Time
Growing
Growing Up