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| | AEGiS-Chicago Tribune: A grande (sort of) dame tweaks S. Africa's elite: From koeksisters to AIDS, satirist beholds ... |
 | | Faced with censors that frequently banned his plays or cut his scripts, Uys, a young theater graduate, settled instead on doing scriptless one-man shows, and Evita, the outspoken wife of a National Party parliament member, was soon born, first as the fictional author of a newspaper column and then as one of his central characters. |
 | | Censors, not sure what to make of a well-coifed Afrikaans lady who fried traditional koeksisters and served as ambassador to the fictional fl homeland of Bapitikosweti as well as lambasting apartheid leaders, let her speak, seeing her in some way as one of their own. |
 | | Nearly 30 years later she's still jabbing errant politicians, fl and white, with a guileless style that makes her hard to dislike, not least because she's honest. |
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