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Pieter-Dirk Uys
South African comedian (born 1945)
Pieter-Dirk Uys | |
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| Born | (1945-09-28) 28 September 1945 (age 79) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
| Occupation(s) | Satirist, performer, author, social activist |
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.
Background and early life
Uys was born in Cape Town on 28 September 1945, to Hannes Uys, a CalvinistAfrikaner father, and Helga Bassel, a Berlin-born Jewish mother.[1] Hannes Uys, a fourth-generation South African of Dutch and Belgian Huguenot stock,[1] was a musician and organist in his local church.[2] 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.[3] She later escaped to South