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Article: sharp focus.(South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys uses satire to teach safe sex)(Brief Article)
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- New Internationalist
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- October 1, 2001
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Louise Gray views the inspired South African satirist.
When democracy finally arrived in South Africa, some wondered what would happen to the career of apartheid's foremost satirist, Pieter-Dirk Uys. This was an actor who, often likened to Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage, never shied away from putting on a dress to make a point.
And Uys's point was quite simple: apartheid was an inhuman system which, in relegating the country's majority population to servitude, was also brutalizing the white majority who ran it. Dressed up in a full-length spangled gown and a maniacally coiffured wig as he introduced Evita Bezuidenhout--'the most famous white woman in ...