Theatre On The Bay Welcomes Tannie Evita in EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT AND THE KAKTUS OF SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT

Pieter Toerien's Theatre on the Bay will welcome Tannie Evita to their stage when EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT AND THE KAKTUS OF SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT opens in the Camps Bay theatre this week.

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 civilisation 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.

EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT & THE KAKTUS OF SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT plays Theatre on the Bay from 20 June - 1 July on Tuesdays through Saturdays at 20:00. Bookings are through online through Computicketor by telephone on 0214383310. Follow Evita Bezuidenhout on Twitter or her YouTube channel.

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