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HIV+ Bambi's show to expose 'poeps'

– Shellee Geduld, Cape Argus, 5 December 2003

She is the crude, outspoken and sarcastic sister of a well-known political personality and she is HIV-positive.Bambi Kellermann, younger sibling of Evita Bezuidenhout, made her first public appearance at the Cape Town Press Club yesterday in support of greater awareness about HIV and Aids.

She fled South Africa years ago in search of a better life and ended up in Eastern Europe where she met her husband Herr Kellermann, a Nazi German, in a bar in Vienna. Before having to pursue a job as a "dancer" to support her aging husband, Kellermann enjoyed many sexual escapades and it was then that she contracted HIV.

After her husband's death she returned to South Africa where she lived a low-key life out of the limelight, until yesterday.

At the lunch Kellermann appealed to journalists to talk to their children and families about the negative impact of HIV/Aids on the country.

She added that the emphasis should not only be on the government supplying free Aids drugs, but also about educating people about the disease.

Kellermann has previously come out strongly in support of South Africa's famous satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys's fight against HIV and Aids and even stars in his latest production, Survival AIDS.

She said she hoped Survival AIDS, based on the popular TV quiz show The Weakest Link, would help to educate people.

Kellermann, who is actually one of Uys's alter egos, plays the sarcastic host who grills the contestants about HIV and Aids and dismisses each loser as the "the biggest poep".

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