'Apartheid was always behind the scenes' – Kelly Hoppen on running away to South Africa
'Apartheid was always behind the scenes' – Kelly Hoppen on running away to South Africa The interior designer reflects on the life-changing year she fled the UK for South Africa aged 16 to live with a band 3 March 2021 • 3:00pm 'I’d had this wild year of rebellion and awakening,' says the interior designer, 'but it was a sticking plaster over my father’s death' My father Seymour was an East End entrepreneur who’d started his working life as a door-to-door salesman. In his late twenties he met and married my South African mother Stephanie. I was born in Johannesburg and we lived the...