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Comedian and Satirist - Pieter-Dirk Uys

Comedian and Satirist - Pieter-Dirk Uys

The Interview vor 10 Jahren

Are there dangers in playing South Africa's recent history for laughs?

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Stephen Sackur speaks to South African satirist, Pieter-Dirk Uys.
Leaders who routinely abuse their power cannot stand to be
laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon. That is a truth
Pieter-Dirk Uys has exploited for 40 years. He styles himself as
"the most famous white woman in South Africa." Thanks to his
alter ego Auntie Evita - a character he created to poke fun at
the white Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and
which he now uses to lampoon Jacob Zuma and the ANC. But are
there dangers in playing South Africa's recent history for
laughs?

(Photo: South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys in the Hardtalk
studio)