Wonderful to discover this on YT. Thank you PDU. Am currently enjoying reading “Between the Devil and the deep”. Great stuff. Cheers from Dubrovnik Croatia.
@ChrisLourens8 жыл бұрын
Dankie Pieter dat jy die juweel vir ons beskikbaar gemaak het. 34 Jaar later is dit so goed om weer vir ons self te kan lag.
@johnmajor95643 жыл бұрын
Its amazing that such criticism was possible back then.
@pajerry332 жыл бұрын
Thank you Pieter. Was too young to watch Adapt or Dye in '82. Was then in Sub A. Really enjoyed your show. I wish you would do a similar one today. Politicians are such good material. P.S. what was the meaning of the Paraguay jokes? I thought Eschel Rhoodie ran off to Ecuador.
@michaeljose8122 Жыл бұрын
I think the Paraguay reference was that particular South American dictatorship was one of the few countries to maintain political recognition of the SA government of the time.
@JonathanWales-f5l3 ай бұрын
@@michaeljose8122 It did. Paraguay and Taiwan both had political, economic and military ties with South Africa.
@Risperdali5 жыл бұрын
I remember Pieter-Dirk Uys as a child of the 80s in South Africa. At the time I didn't realise that his characters provided an important critique of apartheid. It must have been hard to walk the line of satire and censorship (and possible prison)
@farieddebruyns3387 жыл бұрын
Most Brilliant South African performer. True to his one word philosophy, Creative. By 1982, South Africa was trying very hard restructure, to accommodate all people, but found it hard to have equal, but separate development. It feared that the country would slide into what is happening now, looking at the examples of other Black Governments. Peter Dirk Uys with his many performances paved the way for whites to accept change. Now many people can only wish that they had more time, to usher in gradual change, such that you didn't have a sudden opening of borders and have 8 million foreigners from Africa, draining this economy, and involved in organised crime, the likes that Apartheid South Africa has never known.
@Myakills9 жыл бұрын
I would be very grateful if somebody could tell me what Mr Uys says here 4:29 (Here in SA we...?). I am writing my MA thesis on South African English and I need this info for that. I'm from Poland and I have some problems with understanding. Thank you!
@EvitaSePerron9 жыл бұрын
Myakills Tannie Evita says; 'Here in South Africa we still sing 'Die Stem'...'. This is the name of the National Anthem of South Africa during apartheid and still forms part of our current anthem and is sang in Afrikaans and English, along with Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.
@Myakills9 жыл бұрын
EvitaSePerron Thank you so much for such a quick respond!
@Myakills9 жыл бұрын
Myakills What about the word 'kudita' (12:31)... I tried to look it up in some dictionaries with no result. Again I would be very grateful for any help.
@nexobusa9 жыл бұрын
+Myakills onsland (our land) onsvolk (our nation) onslaughter ( our onslaught ie, oppression). good bye to a coup (coup de ta) --- a masive revolt, killing etc. hope that helps myaskills
@brendandr8 жыл бұрын
Actually a Coup d'etat (A revolution). The joke is a Coup de tata...saying goodbye - running away.
@nevilleprinsloo4 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness; how did the word "wanking" 18:22 get past the censors??!
@petejohnball1564 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching Blits Patrolie all those years ago. The two main characters plus two others, were in an unmarked car staking out a baddie across the road, when this gorgeous bird walked along the pavement towards them. One of the guys in the back said, "Cor, lovely pair of BEEP! (Referring to her Pectoral region). The other guy in the back said, "Hang on that's Jack's wife". A third peson said ,"Yeah, he's a right wanker". The poor old tannies in the censorship dept. of the SABC, hadn't mastered the finer points of the English language yet.
@cutterkniffenproductions12058 ай бұрын
Can anyone tell me all the songs and artists that were played? I can't find them using the music detector
@janiallan63287 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading! Do you have PDU's ''Going Down Gorgeous''? I flew to Gauteng from Cape Town to make a cameo!
@EvitaSePerron7 жыл бұрын
Here's the link to the Going Down Gorgeous playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5-UZXl9h52Zh7c
@P99AT7 жыл бұрын
I'm so pleased with myself that I got that Durban joke at the beginning.
@nevilleprinsloo4 жыл бұрын
How on earth he got away it for so many years. Hell he was funny!!!
@Jade-tc2nv6 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this as a child in 1982. Ironically working for the National Party from 1992 till it's demise in, no matter how we named or changed it's logo to the NNP. I recognise most, of the "old" timers in the day. The only character I cannot place, although what I thought was Piet Koornhof, (because of the ears etc. but with the non afrikaans accent he sure had, and the fast speech and repetition of words, definitely reminded me of one of our old a politicians. If possible please refresh my memory. many thanks
@JonathanWales-f5l3 ай бұрын
I believe that it's a caricature of the late Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis. The glasses, mustache, ears, nose and pattern of speaking are all reminiscent of him.
@martinlagrange88212 жыл бұрын
And yet - thanks to this one satirical comedy, that rotten old house of cards got its first strong kick in its shins...thank goodness for that.
@rstrajt92205 жыл бұрын
PDU as one of his female characters did a stage song that I'd love to find. Think the chorus was 'No way' (maybe the name of the song). Had it on Beta cassette back then.
@EvitaSePerron5 жыл бұрын
That was from the film 'Skating on thin Uys' and the song 'No Way' was performed by Tannie Evita's daughter, Billy-Jean and her band; BJ and the koeksisters.
@rstrajt92205 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the quick reply. Wow! Every now and then the song jumps into my head and I have to smile. I'm not sure why it got stuck in there. After decades, I still remember it. My mom loved PDU I think even before Evita. Then I did, just because things were so wrong and someone dared to make fun of it.
@TheTheobear5 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Jy was fantasies in Soho gistraand.
@DaL33T57 жыл бұрын
I wish I knew Afrikaans, I can't understand half of it, but it looks hilarious.
@koekjeisdebeste3 жыл бұрын
He helped ending apartheid. Strang Dutch and that Dutch flag....
@WayneKitching Жыл бұрын
Yes, Afrikaans evolved from 17th-Century Dutch. The old South African flag was based on the old Dutch flag.
@fransmalotle3413 Жыл бұрын
😂Absolutely hilarious
@vertxxgg8 жыл бұрын
adapt or die while eurozone is becoming the otoman empire by Pacha Erdogan ,concubine Merkel and belly dancer Lagarde...3rd WW is the best option