Oti Mabuse
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And then we go Durban, and then we go Porto de Tabeja, it's called.
And then we do the middle of the country as well.
There are places that I've also never been, like Drakensberg, meeting a boys' choir, seeing them, how disciplined they are and how talented those boys are, going to the countryside, getting on a helicopter and just flying over Lesotho and then standing on the mountaintops and then finding out the culture wars that we used to have as different black peoples, the Zulus and the Ndebele's and the kings and the royal families, things that I didn't even know about.
And some of the fights they had and the tensions that they still have today.
So all of that was introducing him to that, but also for me to find out more about another part of South Africa that I'd never learned.
We met some incredible people as well.
New dancers that I'd never seen.
So we pretty much danced everywhere and the ref hated it.
He was like, oh my God, yes.
He's like, please don't tell me all South African dancers.
I was like, yep.
All South Africans dance.
We have some sort of cultural dance.
And we danced Zuni dance, Xhosa dance.
We did the first man, so the Khoisan, their descendants.
They have their own cultural and special dance, which we did in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
And he loved it because then he started going, who's your favorite football team?
And they were like, us now.
So we had good conversations with the kids as well.
It was just a beautiful journey, really beautiful journey.