Motsi Mabuse’s other sister lives out of the spotlight as an engineer

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Strictly Come Dancing is back this weekend and Motsi Mabuse will be cheering the contestants on. She and her sister Oti have lived and breathed dance from a young age, but their middle sister, Phemelo, chose not to pursue the same career. Express.co.uk has all you need to know about Phemelo.

Viewers were introduced to the middle Mabuse sister in Oti Mabuse’s documentary, My South Africa.

Oti ended her trip in Cape Town, where sister Phemelo lives, and she is the only one of the three Mabuse sisters not to be involved in dance.

She is also the only sister to have remained in South Africa.

Phemelo, from Pretoria, did learn to dance like her sisters and she does still sometimes compete professionally.

She mostly teaches students in Pretoria, Johannesburg and the Mpumalanga regions.

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She won the South African title in Latin American & Ballroom in the Juvenile, Junior and Youth categories between 1996 and 2003.

The star has also represented South Africa four times at the World Dance Sport Championships and is one of the dancers for South African R&B songstress KB.

She now works as an MBA graduate in mechanical engineering, designing windmills that create electricity in South Africa.

Speaking on the Jonathan Ross show, sister Oti revealed Phemelo was the “best dancer” of the three.

The sisters grew up South Africa during apartheid, and Motsi called their childhood “very sad”.

“I’m so thankful for the world of dance because if I had grown up with just the South African bitterness of the very hard childhood we had.

“I’d never experienced the love of the dance world, then I probably would have been a very sad person,” she told The Mirror.

Speaking on Loose Women, she added: “We were in the middle of apartheid and racism and we had to learn to fight so if you look at that little girl, she had to learn to fight from the onset – this is going to be a tough life she’s going to live.”

Phemelo was not the only sister who pursued an academic career before dancing.

Motsi studied law at the University of Pretoria and was set to join the family law firm before she decided to change careers.

Meanwhile, Oti studied civil engineering for four years, pursuing her love for maths and science.

However, she admitted she missed dancing too much and went back to the ballroom.

The sisters often share photos with one another on Instagram and followers have commented on their likeness.

When Phemelo came to visit Motsi at the Strictly studio, Motsi shared: “My beautiful sister came to support me this weekend @phemelom I love this woman so much.

“I am so thankful for this human who is my pillar of strength from day one.”

Her sister responded: “Love you and I am proud of you.”

Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One on Saturday from 7.15pm

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