A 2008 advert for Nando’s featuring Dame Evita Bezuidenhout, has resurfaced and is making the rounds on social media.
Nando’s, an international casual dining restaurant chain originating in South Africa, with a Mozambican/Portuguese theme originally released the video in 2008. The company founded in 1987 operates about 1,000 outlets in over 30 countries.
Tannie Evita, starts the skit in her boudoir, hanging up the phone with someone named, “Barack” and starts explains the meal options currently available but the options only include A and C. She goes on to sat what about option B?
“I mean, we all know you can’t just have A and C.”
Having poked fun at the ANC before, Pieter-Dirk Uys is pleased about the collaboration with Nando’s,
“I’ve always regarded Nando’s as the ‘aangenaaide familie’ of satire. Brilliant instant reaction to issues.”
Pieter-Dirk Uys is particularly well known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout (also known as Tannie Evita), a white Afrikaner socialite and self-proclaimed political activist. The character was inspired by Australian comedian Barry Humphries’s character Dame Edna Everage.
Evita is the former ambassadress of Bapetikosweti – a fictitious Bantustan or black homeland located outside her home in the affluent, formerly whites-only suburbs of Johannesburg.
Under Apartheid, Uys used the medium of humour and comedy to criticise and expose the absurdity of the South African government’s racial policies.
In true Nandos style, the ad was newsworthy, cheeky, funny and clever… a great piece of satire that almost ten years later, is still doing the rounds.
Watch the hilarious video below:
https://vimeo.com/80873833
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