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and other media. Living in London he became a regular pundit on BBC radio, assessing the 1980s political unrest that heralded the release of
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described Uys as "somewhat of a legend among journalists in South Africa." Uys interviewed ANC president Oliver Tambo in exile in 1983. He interviewed Nelson
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becoming interested in journalism as a teenager. He worked in that field from 1941 until shortly before his own death in 2014.
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Uys moved to London in the 1990s to run the office of South Africa's
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in the 1950s and wrote extensively for newspapers in India, New
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Uys was one of four siblings born to
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