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Evita Bezuidenhout & The Kaktus of Separate Development

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On 22, 23 and 24 February at 7:00 pm daily Tannie Evita will take on the roots of our Rainbow Nation. “Uys dons false eyelashes and presidents listen.” – LA Times

Evita Bezuidenhout has been part of South Africa’s political sessions of Big Brother since 1981.

A former apartheid Ambassador in the Homeland of Bapetikosweti, she is now in the kitchens of Luthuli House where she cooks for reconciliation. She has always reminded us where we come from, so that we can celebrate where we are going. But since her three grandchildren have started asking questions about the past, Tannie Evita realises that while all the people of South Africa are now free to celebrate their roots, their history and their culture, white South Africans still are rootless. Especially the Afrikaner whose official history was probably made up behind a desk in Pretoria as propaganda.

What was fake news?

How many details were alternative facts?

Did Jan van Riebeeck bring civilization to South Arica in 1652? Or was he just a Dutch convict who came to steal chickens from the Bushmen?

Why did 127 branches of the Great Trek start in Cape Town on the same afternoon?

Was English cooking the British Empire’s weapon of mass destruction during their invasion of the Cape?

Was Paul Kruger the first Broeder to practise state capture?

Was the Battle of Blood River that? Or was it a braaivleis of reconciliation?

Does the Queen of England still wear stolen goods glittering in her crown?

And why does President Donald Trump keep sending tweets asking for a personal meeting with Nelson Mandela?

The problems of the past, the issues of the day and the hopes for the future – all in the hands of the most famous white woman in the African National Congress, who now proves that there is freedom of speech in Luthuli House. It is just sometimes after speech that freedom goes.

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.