Johaar Mosaval obituary

The first dancer of colour to join the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet whose ballet school in Cape Town was closed in the 1970s as he refused to operate under apartheid rulesThe South African ballet dancer Johaar Mosaval, who has died aged 95, was the first dancer of colour to join the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, in London, later to become the Royal Ballet. As well as abundant natural talent, he demonstrated resilience and determination against the odds, as a black, Muslim boy from