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Pieter-Dirk Uys was born on 28 September, 1945 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a South African comedian (born 1945). Discover Pieter-Dirk Uys's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Satirist, performer, author, social activist
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 28 September, 1945
Birthday 28 September
Birthplace Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1935

Bassel was a German concert pianist, whom the Nazis expelled from the Reichsmusikkammer in 1935 as part of their campaign to root out Jewish artists.

1945

Pieter-Dirk Uys (born 28 September 1945) is a South African performer, author, satirist, and social activist.

One of his best known roles is as Evita Bezuidenhout, an Afrikaner socialite.

Uys was born in Cape Town on 28 September 1945, to Hannes Uys, a Calvinist Afrikaner father, and Helga Bassel, a Berlin-born Jewish mother.

Hannes Uys, a fourth-generation South African of Dutch and Belgian Huguenot stock, was a musician and organist in his local church.

1948

She later escaped to South Africa and managed to take her grand piano with her, with which she taught her daughter, Tessa Uys (b. 1948), now a concert pianist based in London.

Bassel spoke little about her Jewish past to her children.

It was only after her suicide that they discovered she was Jewish.

Uys and his sister had an NG Kerk upbringing and their mother encouraged them to embrace Afrikaner culture.

Uys received a B.A. from the University of Cape Town where he began his dramatic career as an actor under the tutelage of Rosalie van der Gught, Mavis Taylor and Robert Mohr, among others.

His performances at this time included roles in Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, The Fantasticks, and Once Upon a Mattress.

1970

He later went on to study at the London Film School during the early 1970s.

It was in one of his student films, an advertisement for milk, that he performed in drag for the first time (as a milkmaid).

He then began a period in his dramatic career as a serious playwright.

1979

Several of his plays were performed at the Space Theatre, Cape Town, and his 1979 play Paradise is Closing Down was performed in London, at the Edinburgh Festival (co-produced by William Burdett-Coutts), and later produced for Granada Television in 1981.

He subsequently switched to performing 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, Afrikaans for "Auntie Evita"), a white Afrikaner socialite and self-proclaimed political activist.

The character was inspired by Australian comedian Barry Humphries's character Dame Edna Everage.

Evita is the former ambassadress of Bapetikosweti – a fictitious Bantustan or black homeland located outside her home in the affluent, formerly whites-only suburbs of Johannesburg.

Evita Bezuidenhout is named in honour of Eva Perón.

Under Apartheid, Uys used the medium of humour and comedy to criticise and expose the absurdity of the South African government's racial policies.

Much of his work was not censored, indicating a tacit approval of his views by many members of the ruling party, who were not so bold as to openly admit mistakes and criticise the policies themselves.

For many years Uys lampooned the South African regime and its leaders, as well as the sometimes hypocritical attitudes of white liberals.

One of his characters, a kugel (social climbing Jewish woman) once said, "There are two things wrong with South Africa: one's apartheid and the other's black people".

This was later erroneously attributed to Uys himself.

1994

Following South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, Uys starred in a TV series, Funigalore, in which Evita interviewed Nelson Mandela and other prominent politicians of the day.

In the theatre, Uys/Evita's performances include You ANC Nothing Yet.

He and his character are known for their tireless work in the frontline of HIV/AIDS activism and education.

He is currently involved in teaching AIDS awareness to children and education in the use of condoms, travelling to schools all over South Africa to spread the message of safe, responsible sex.

Uys also serves on the board of directors for the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded to provide treatment for and conduct research relating to HIV.

Uys converted the old, disused railway station at Darling, where he lives, into a cabaret venue called Evita se Perron (Perron is Afrikaans for station platform) and performs there regularly.

2004

During 2004, Pieter-Dirk Uys took part in a Carte Blanche story, dealing with genetics and unlocking the mysteries of race and ethnicity, entitled "So, Where Do We Come From?".

Uys discovered that he has Central African heritage from his mother's side.

2011

Uys received the Special Teddy Award 2011 at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for his commitment to AIDS education at South African schools and for his on-stage alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout.

An independent jury presents the Teddy Award to individuals for lifetime achievements for films with LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) topics.