Keeping Up - Schalk Bezuidenhout (Windhoek)

Schalk Bezuidenhout was born in Kempton Park or as he calls it - 'The New York of the East Rand'.

In Kempton Park the traditional Afrikaans way of living was a good life. Your mother's breast milk would be brannewyn en coke and you would walk kaalvoet to school. His family and friends stood back as they watched Schalk evolve from an Afrikaans conservative caterpillar into a beautiful drama queen butterfly, complete with a moustache and furry afro. It was obvious to Schalk's parents that he would study drama, and to help numb the pain they sent him away to study at the University of Cape Town. While studying in Cape Town Schalk slowly began to realise that there was so much more to life than boerewors and rugby, and started doing stand-up in April 2011.

On stage Schalk is fun and energetic and appeals to people of all kinds and colours.