Evita just keeps cooking for reconciliation
IT is 2016, in the 22nd year of our democracy and Evita Bezuidenhout is still with us. For the last 35 years she has been in the public domain, firstly as the South African Ambassador to the Independent Black Homeland of Bapetiskosweti, and then “once Nelson Mandela dissolved the Bantustans into one homeland called South Africa, she went into his kitchen and cooked for him”.
Now still regarded by many as the most famous white woman in South Africa, Bezuidenhout has taken over the kitchen in Luthuli House, where, as a member of the ANC, she cooks for reconciliation, having put the Cabinet on a strict diet. Her three born-free grandchildren have challenged her to protect democracy for the future generations to enjoy.
As she says: ‘Boer maak ‘n Plan!’ So spend a special evening or matinee with her in the Artscape Theatre and join Evita in focusing on the news of the day with humour - confronting the realities of a rainbow nation in some trouble with optimism, and always keeping the glass half-full and not half-empty.
See An Evening with Evita Bezuidenhout at Artscape on November 1 and 2 at 8pm, and November 6 at 3pm and 6pm. Not suitable for those under the age of 14, and anyone without a sense of humour.
Also look out for Uys when he returns to The Baxter Theatre with The Echo of a Noise from November 29 to December 17 at 8.5pm nightly. - Staff writer
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