De Kock Bezuidenhout thoughts on Evita's BlackBessie

De Kock Bezuidenhout thoughts on Evita's BlackBessie.

"Superstitions still rule the world, which some fools still stupidly believe is not flat!", says De Kock Bezuidenhout, introducing his mother's answer to modern communiction and organizing devices, Evita's BlackBessie.

My Ouma Ossewania Kakebenia Poggenpoel spent most of her life avoiding a telephone, in case it became the conduit for lightening and therefore instant death. My father, Dr J. J. de V. Bezuidenhout still insists on wearing rubber-soled shoes before taking a dvd out of the player in order not to be electrocuted. My sister Billie-Jeanne still refuses to visit a hairdressing salon in case she is forced under a drier which she is convinced will bring on a debilitating stroke. My twin brother Izan still won't drink water after eating green Hanepoot grapes, because he will "blow up"! My partner Moff de Bruyn is convinced that if you eat watermelon and swallow a pip, it will grow in your stomach. And I, till recently, also believed that a shower after unprotected sex would cure anything. So I am happy to celebrate this effort from my mother, Evita Bezuidenhout, to come to terms with her demons of suspicion and fear. She is scared that her cellphone will give her brain cancer, that the iPhone will spy on her thoughts, that the iPod will radiate her with nuclear molecules and that her laptop will blow up and lose all her secrets forever. Hence this book, Evita's BlackBessie. So, instead of pressing send just turn the page!

Evita's BlackBessie
by Evita Bezuidenhout; Pieter-Dirk Uys
ISBN 9781415201589 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0158-9
Hardcover, 15 x 21 cm, 224 pages, several colour photographs

This is a press release from Namibiana Buchdepot: De Kock Bezuidenhout speaks Evita's BlackBessie.