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.