Coetzee asked otherwise, although most South Africans pronouncing his surname would say /eə/ or /ɪə/, yes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/09/how_to_s...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/09/how_to_s...
Is this an Afrikaans regional dialect thing, like how the letter e gets pronounced before k? If so, where is each variant associated with?