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Monday, July 29, 2024

PIETER-DIRK UYS THIRD VOLUME AVAILABLE

 


One Man Shows: The Mbeki HIV Renaissance – Pieter Dirk Uys’ third volume - is now available free on http://pdu.co.za/OneManShows.html

 

Pieter-Dirk Uys's latest books, published by Missing Ink, are available free to read or download on his website: http://pdu.co.za/OneManShows.html

 

The first volume - One Man Shows: The black and white years (1981-1994) - available since December 2021, has been enjoyed all over the world by readers interested in exploring our long walk to freedom and democracy, from Adapt or Dye, through Total Onslaught and Beyond the Rubicon to celebrate the birth of democracy with One Man One Volt.

 

The second volume - One Man Shows: The Mandela Rainbow Honeymoon (1992-1999)- available since Madiba Day 2023, focuses mainly on the five years of Nelson Mandela's presidency, starting in 1992 with An Evening with Pieter-Dirk Uys, when racist chalk promised to become democratic cheese. After You ANC nothing yet!, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's emotional TRC is showcased in Truth Omissions, while with the dawn of a new century and a new president, Dekaffirnated makes its own statement with humour and optimism where possible. It all really makes sense of Tannie Evita's favourite slogan: 'We don't need a crystal ball to see where our country is going. The future of South Africa is certain; it's just the past that is unpredictable!'

 

The third volume - One Man Shows: The MBeki HIV Renaissance (2000-2009) - welcomes the new century with a detailed focus on the HIV/Aids pandemic in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki's confusing denials that HIV does not lead to Aids become the inspiration behind For Fact's Sake and PDU's visits to South African schools with an entertainment to alert learners with humour. Foreign Aids toured throughout South Africa and then internationally to the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, winning the Off-Broadway OBIE Award in 2002.

 

Uys's subsequent shows, The End is Naai, Icons & Aikonas and Evita for President, will remind readers of the need to inform truth with humour in spite of fatal state denials. In 2008 Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout launched her Evita's Peoples Party (the EPP) as a voter-educational reminder, climaxing in Elections & Erections, which celebrates yet another democratically elected ANC government and a new president, Jacob Zuma. This third volume is now freely available to all following its international launch at the 2024 Franschhoek Literary Festival which took place from May 17 to 19, 2024.