Adelaine Hain obituary

Anti-apartheid campaigner impelled to leave her home in South Africa to settle in London in the 1960sNearly 50 years ago, in 1972, a phone call alerted me to a demonstration at the Covent Garden opera house in London. Would I write it up in the paper? It was a matinee and a throng of starry-eyed teenagers were waiting at the stage door for the dancer Margot Fonteyn.

As she appeared, and to general dismay, banners shot up, urging Don’t Dance to the Apartheid Tune. The Hain family – Adelaine and Walter, and a couple of their children – were telling the much-loved prima ballerina how unwise it would be to do Sleeping Beauty before segregated audiences in Cape Town.

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