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Madam & Eve Annual's #2
Free at Last
This is the second collection of the popular South African cartoon strip, "Madam and Eve", in book format. It is a contemporary satirical series about a white South African woman and her maid.
- GenresComics
176 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 1995
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About the author
S. Francis
30 booksPen name of Stephen Francis
Stephen Francis, an award-winning writer and a radio and TV personality, was born in the US in 1949, and moved to South Africa in 1988 with his then wife, Wendy, whom he met at the South African consulate in New York City.
In addition to being the creator of South Africa's most popular cartoon strip, Madam & Eve, he has also written more than 28 episodes of the Madam & Eve TV series; dramas (Soul City and Zero Tolerance); and Soap operas such as Scandal!,
Stephen Francis, also does a great deal of corporate theatre work, combining education with comedy.
He is currently developing several horror movie scripts.
Stephen Francis, an award-winning writer and a radio and TV personality, was born in the US in 1949, and moved to South Africa in 1988 with his then wife, Wendy, whom he met at the South African consulate in New York City.
In addition to being the creator of South Africa's most popular cartoon strip, Madam & Eve, he has also written more than 28 episodes of the Madam & Eve TV series; dramas (Soul City and Zero Tolerance); and Soap operas such as Scandal!,
Stephen Francis, also does a great deal of corporate theatre work, combining education with comedy.
He is currently developing several horror movie scripts.
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December 15, 2025
My family is from South Africa, so of course we had complications of old Madam and Eve comic strips. This weird series is a newspaper comic commenting about events in South Africa, and the complications I had were set during and after the fall of apartheid. This is the first one chronologically.
Although Madam and Eve is about a clueless white woman and her maid, I read it when I was a kid and I don’t remember anything really racist about it. It makes fun of everyone in South Africa, and Eve is more competent, likeable, and funnier than her madam. A sample of this comic strip’s humor is “We’re free at last!” “Well, don’t forget to do this dishes.”
I remember this comic series being really funny, and I think I learned a lot about South African politics from it. Despite being South African in origin, my family really didn’t tell me that much about South African conditions in the nineties, or they told me propaganda about “reverse apartheid.” Learning about history and politics through humor is the best.
Although Madam and Eve is about a clueless white woman and her maid, I read it when I was a kid and I don’t remember anything really racist about it. It makes fun of everyone in South Africa, and Eve is more competent, likeable, and funnier than her madam. A sample of this comic strip’s humor is “We’re free at last!” “Well, don’t forget to do this dishes.”
I remember this comic series being really funny, and I think I learned a lot about South African politics from it. Despite being South African in origin, my family really didn’t tell me that much about South African conditions in the nineties, or they told me propaganda about “reverse apartheid.” Learning about history and politics through humor is the best.
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