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	Pieter-Dirk Uys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the height of the Apartheid era.
		Uys is particularly well known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout (also known as Tannie Evita), a white Afrikaner socialite and self-proclaimed political activist.
		Under Apartheid, Uys used the medium of humour and stand-up comedy to criticize and expose the absurdity of the South African government's racial policies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pieter_Dirk_Uys (471 words)

	Uys family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the same year Dirk purchased the estate Groot Zalze, south of Stellenbosch (the slave quarters of which still stand), and in 1731 he was amongst the earliest burghers to receive grazing rights in the Overberg (at Buffeljachtsrivier) thus becoming one of the first (official) part-time frontiersmen in South Africa.
		Dirk served as deacon in the Reformed Church at Stellenbosch from at least 1725; he was an Elder of the Church, and helped administer justice in his capacity as Heemraad of Stellenbosch.
		Dirk was himself to die at the hands of the British for he fell at the Battle of Talana (1899) in the opening weeks of the Second Anglo-Boer War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uys_family (4401 words)

	GMax - Entertainment news: Wits honours Pieter-Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uys who was born in Cape Town, and now lives in the small West Coast dorpie of Darling, was closely associated with both the innovative Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Over the years, during his one-man-myriad-character tours de forces, Uys has transformed himself before the eyes of his audiences into many of this country's most revered and most reviled characters (male and female), using the art of the theatre, impersonation and merciless satire to explore the relationship between the individual and the state.
		In recognition of his exceptional contribution to South Africa Uys was nominated as a national Living Treasure by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in November 2002, joining a group of individuals described by the HSRC as 'magnificently creative South Africans who have achieved excellence, critical acclaim and international success'.
	www.gmax.co.za /feel04/11/25-pduys.html (437 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Pieter Dirk-Uys leaps out of DA's closet
		According to Uys, party leader Tony Leon recently phoned him expressing concern that as he was doing "objective voter education", how could his support of rival opposition leader Patricia de Lille of the Independent Democrats (ID) appear on her party's website.
		Uys confirmed to I-Net Bridge that he had told Leon he was, indeed, not a paid-up member of the ID but that he was "in fact a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) since old Progressive Federal Party (PFP) days in the 1970s".
		Uys said he thanked Leon for pointing it out and he would resign from the DA and sent a letter to him to confirm this.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/310351.htm (443 words)

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		This year promises to be no exception, while his focus may have evolved along with our democratic society, sacred cows are still at risk, the government is still not safe and his dress sense is still as outrageously stylish.
		Uys' popular kugel character Nowell Fine, a firm favourite with audiences for 15 years, brings a sparkle to the Festival in the production Going Down Gorgeous.
		Dekaffirnated is Uys' new look at fl and white in a fading Rainbow Nation on the eve of the birth of a new millennium, specifically the power of language and the use of certain words to imprison and degrade.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/06/25/entertainment/UYS.HTM (534 words)

	WIC Biography - Pieter-Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pieter-Dirk Uys was born, bred and, as he describes himself, "invented" in Cape Town, South Africa.
		Pieter-Dirk Uys (pronounced Ace) is indeed prolific in his writings but it is comedic and satirical performances, especially his one-man-show performances, that garner enormous critical praise and audience laughter.
		Uys takes delight in satirizing Evita and her "contributions" to the new South Africa.
	www.wic.org /bio/puys.htm (430 words)

	EJP \| News \| Germany \| Fighting fear with humour
		Uys’ mother was a concert pianist in Berlin who emigrated to South Africa in 1936 after she lost the right to perform in public because she was Jewish.
		Uys’ father was a member of one of the ruling political families.
		Uys also performed his “Foreign Aids” show at Berlin’s Jewish Museum – because the message is fighting fear and fear was the reason he was born in South Africa in the first place.
	www.ejpress.org /article/5604 (668 words)

	Pieter Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pieter Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, particularly well known overseas for his character Evita Bezuidenhout, a white Afrikaner housewife, similar to Australian comedian Barry Humphries' character Dame Edna Everage.
		Born of Afrikaner and Jewish parentage, Uys also caused annoyance to traditional Afrikaners as he was also gay.
		For many years, Uys and his characters lampooned the apartheid regime and its leaders, and also the attitudes of white liberals.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pi/pieter_dirk_uys.html (163 words)

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		CAPE TOWN -- Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys has been awarded the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's annual reconciliation award for enabling the nation to laugh at itself, and for his Aids awareness work in schools.
		Institute spokesman Thapelo Mokushane said Uys had addressed more than 400000 pupils in schools countrywide as part of his Aids awareness drive, and the institute wanted to honour him for this.
		Uys also had the knack of making South Africans laugh at themselves, thereby creating an opportunity for reconciliation, he said.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/05/04/southafrica/UYS.HTM (104 words)

	Red Pepper archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uys began giving what he called Îsolo concertsâ in theatres because this was the only form the censor couldnât touch because there was no script.
		But only Uys does chilling characterisations of a torturer giving evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a white liberal gay tourist cruising for fl boys from the townships, an old Jewish woman remembering the Nazis she ran from and seeing the same thing in apartheid South Africa ö and in fortress Europe.
		Only Uys could put on his PW Botha pork-pie hat and specs, and turn up at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as he did this spring, in place of the real Botha, who was refusing to do so.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /cularch/XUYS.HTML (2399 words)

	IOL: Pieter-Dirk Uys rises to the occasion
		Uys described the book - which is subtitled A Memoir Of Fear And Fun - as a "celebration of survival".
		Uys has also been talking to adults, from London to Grahamstown to Australia, with his show, Foreign Aids, that is based on his programme at schools.
		Uys was introduced by Darius Brubeck, the head of the jazz centre, who compared him to Lenny Bruce, Mark Twain and Herman Charles Bosman.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=9&click_id=103&art_id=ct20021212113151592P363690 (573 words)

	ZA@Play - Theatre: Dekaffirnating the ghetto 28/10/99
		An apartheid-era Cabinet minister, for instance, is reinvented as a titan of the struggle; or a former South African Police torturer runs into one of his victims and tells him: "Hell, man, forgive and forget." The torturer scuttles off.
		If Uys has long tapped into the home-grown Zeitgeist, technology is allowing him to go global: "In Darling I get news on the hour from satellite TV, so I know exactly when the world's ending.
		Uys, the high-tech shaman plugged into CNN and Sky, draws the global ghetto's energies into himself and expunges horror in laughter.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/theatre/9910/991027-uys.html (893 words)

	Uys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jamie Uys (1921-1996), South African film director (born as Jacobus Johannes Uys)
		Uys Krige (christened Mattheus Uys Krige) (1910-1987), South African writer, poet, playwright, translator, rugby player, war correspondent and romantic
		See Uys family for the prominent Afrikaner family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uys (129 words)

	Cape Town Today talks to Pieter-Dirk Uys about "Auditioning Angels"
		Pieter-Dirk Uys: Die Vleiroos was in 1991 - and writing a play is still one of the most exciting experiences.
		PDU: The lack of political and social discourse and argument - like in the 80's.
		PDU: Entertain by reflecting the reality of life, make us laugh at fear and encourage people to explore new areas of opinion and ideas.
	www.capetowntoday.co.za /Interviews/Actors/Uys.htm (343 words)

	ZA@Play - Radio: Gillman vs Uys 18/02/99
		On February 16 Gillman had the good sense to invite the satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys to be his studio guest, to promote Uys’s impending pre-election Ballot Bus campaign.
		Uys had brought his famous alter ego Evita Bezuidenhout to Johannesburg, from the small town of Darling where he now runs his creative life.
		Uys, of course, has been doing impromptu comedy for so long that great one-liners and perceptive off-the-cuff monologues are second nature to him now.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/art/the_rest/9902/990218-gillman_uys.html (743 words)

	Pieter-Dirk Uys ( South Africa)Time of the Writer Festival 2004
		Outspoken satirist, playwright, entertainer and novelist, Pieter-Dirk Uys, born in Cape Town in 1945, has, since the mid 1960s, written, filmed and performed over 35 plays, videos, revues, and one-man shows throughout South Africa, and all over the world.
		When Uys's satirical plays started irritating South African politicians in the 70's, most were banned, so he launched his ‘one-man total onslaught' in 1981 against the narrow-minded Pretoria regime, most of whom, he says, are now ‘either dead, in retirement, in disgrace, insane, incontinent, forgotten, or recycled as avid supporters of the fl majority rule'.
		Pieter-Dirk Uys was awarded South Africa 's prestigious Truth and Reconciliation Award in 2001, as well as honorary literary degrees from Rhodes University (1997), University of Cape Town (2003), and the University of the Western Cape (2003).
	www.cca.ukzn.ac.za /images/tow/TOW2004/Uys.htm (365 words)

	ZA@Play - G-town 99: From girlhood to grannyhood 11/06/99
		Uys was unanimously praised, apart from a singular fl critic who called him a racist (a response he’ll probably confront more often in the future).
		In those days, Uys was so marginal that Evita took to the podium in a late-night slot - meaning he only began his performance way after 10pm.
		In fact, in what is probably to be his final act before he collapses, Uys is effectively staging a festival within the festival - testimony to the fact that no performer in the country has his energy.
	server.mg.co.za /art/gtown99/9906/990611-pduys.html (1020 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Pieter-Dirk Uys wins New York award
		Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys was on Monday night awarded the prestigious OBIE at the 49th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards held in New York.
		This coveted Off-Broadway accolade was presented to Uys for his one-man show Foreign Aids that he performed at the legendary La Mama Theatre last year.
		The South African version of the show The End is Naai opens at Pieter Toerien's Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay Cape Town on July 6 for a short season.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/323553.htm (346 words)

	:: UYS TACKLES AIDS :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For Bambi has HIV - and then Uys whips off the blond wig and shrugs on a surgical gown, and we've got Dr Thaboo MacBeki, the medical expert, spouting Shelley and Shakespeare (to be or not to be sure whether HIV causes Aids) and trying to smoke his pipe through a surgical mask.
		Uys has spent the past two years travelling from to schools across the country, performing and informing hundreds of thousands of pupils about the dangers of unprotected sex.
		The same genius works when he describes the children - the little boy at Nazareth House in Jo'burg who discovered to his intense delight that Evita Bezuidenhout "is not a lady"; the six-year-old girl at Grabouw who sat in the front row at one of his school trips and said she knew all about sex.
	www.joburg.org.za /aug_2002/uys.stm (778 words)

	IOL: Pieter-Dirk Uys resigns his DA membership
		This followed a confrontation between Uys and DA leader Tony Leon after Uys - who has been on an independent voter-education drive for a few weeks - was mistakenly identified as a "paid-up" member of Patricia de Lille's Independent Democrats (ID).
		Leon reprimanded Uys for being a member of the Independent Democrats while doing voter education, only to find that Uys was in fact a paid-up member of the DA.
		Uys said on Thursday he withdrew his DA membership because he believed voter education should be unbiased.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20040319072710721C264693&set_id=1 (499 words)

	ANC REACTION TO COMMENTS BY PIETER DIRK-UYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is rather unfortunate that Pieter Dirk-Uys has chosen to insult the President in the manner he has.
		It is rather ironic that people like Pieter Dirk-Uys staunchly believe in their freedom to express their views, but do not believe such right should extend to the President.
		Pieter Dirk-Uys must realise that real life is not satire and the country is not amused by his grandiose posturing and attention-seeking comments that do not add any value whatsoever to nation-building.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/2003/pr1008.html (499 words)

	Q-online - News: Having sex with Pieter-Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uys had the Press Club in stitches when he launched the video entitled "Having sex with Pieter-Dirk".
		Uys said the message is one of hope: Everyone is responsible for their own lives.
		Uys says the video is one way of encouraging people to stay alive through knowing how.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2002/07/10-evitabez.html (387 words)

	Q.co.za :: News: Investigate Mbeki and Manto for genocide: Pieter-Dirk Uys
		Uys called for an "investigative process" to be put in place as soon as possible, "with vigorous support in local South African and international legal and political circles".
		In his reaction, government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said South Africa was a free country, and all citizens, including Uys, enjoyed freedom of speech.
		Uys also visited 200 schools and 400 000 children in an Aids awareness drive throughout South Africa, and has recently performed in shows tackling Aids and politics, including Foreign Aids and Symbols of Sex and State.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2003/02/27-aids.html (515 words)

	::EISH, IT'S PIETER DIRK UYS:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But, says Uys, the comrades do have something to offer and he has a "chorus line" of characters, including Jacob Zuma, who "is worth a few laughs".
		Evita Bezuidenhout, Uys' alter ego, made her first appearance at the Market Theatre in 1981 in Adapt or Dye and subsequently in Farce about Uys.
		Uys' involvement with the Market Theatre predates the actual birth of the theatre venue.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/june/jun2_eish.stm (593 words)

	Research programme: Society, Culture and Identity (SCI): News - 22 January 2003 - Living Treasures: Pieter-Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uys already has his gaze fixed on the 2004 election "and what will be needed to balance the menu of choices", he says, somewhat cryptically.
		This is where I realised that this is the essence of Pieter Dirk Uys.
		Uys also pays for youngsters from the area to attend "...big schools where they learn French and Xhosa", he says, his eyes shining.
	www.hsrc.ac.za /research/programmes/SCI/news/20030122_2.html (3283 words)

	Review of Pieter-Dirk Uys in Dekaffirnated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mrs Bezuidenhout is so well-known that Uys has just taken her, off his own bat, on a 60-date "voter education through entertainment" tour in "Evita's Ballot Bus" prior to last month's elections.
		Uys has been visiting the Tricycle annually since 1995, and has also made several Edinburgh appearances.
		It is appropriate that the name of the Western Cape village in which Uys lives, and whose former railway station he has converted into a club, is called Darling.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/99067.htm (211 words)

	‘You ANC nothing yet!’ Gender roles in the new South Africa according to Pieter-Dirk Uys
		As Pieter-Dirk Uys observes, under the apartheid regime it was separated from the “white” suburb of Pinelands, where Uys himself was born, by a railway line and a fence.
		Their obvious recognition and complicity with Pieter-Dirk Uys in the targets of his satire suggests perhaps that they share his marginal status and his detached point of view in relation to the political mainstream of the new South Africa.
		Certainly some of the more acerbic observations of Pieter-Dirk Uys suggest that there is at least a threat of the latter: the perpetuation of the old ruling elites, or the replacement of one privileged elite by another; the opening up of the country to foreign capital and influence, particularly American.
	www2.univ-reunion.fr /~ageof/text/74c21e88-131.html (2628 words)

	Review of Pieter-Dirk Uys: Elections And Erections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That may read like condemnation, but in fact it constitutes approval and support: ten years into true democracy in South Africa, Uys continues both to poke fun at and to make serious criticisms of his country's government, more or less just as he did in the days of the National Party regime.
		In other ways, though, it's precisely because of their distance that these figures can comment more sharply on current failings: Uys is also fond of pointing out that "Botha" is an anagram of "Thabo", an observation now given form in a ventriloquial sequence where P.W. banters with a Mbeki doll.
		Uys is a master of putting people at ease.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/04036.htm (341 words)

	Review: Pieter-Dirk Uys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His genius is in masterfully combining the searing intellect, insight and passion of the most earnest of political comics with the low art and catch-all humour of the camp drag act.
		His emotive finale, in which the far-right ex-president FW Botha works a ventriloquist's dummy of present incumbent Thabo Mbeki drives the point home eloquently and movingly; one of the more hard-hitting political comments you're likely to see on a comedy stage.
		Along the way we encounter a gamut of characters, many only fleetingly, but each perfectly brought to life by Uys; a man who fully inhabits every creation and can bring a personality to life with the slightest grimace or nuance of posture.
	www.chortle.co.uk /comics/shows/pieterdirk.html (531 words)

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