Keyword: Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel and America

Picture: Breyten Breytenbach courtesy Bagheia/Flickr Democracy Now! - AMY GOODMAN: Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa’s most famous poets. He’s also an award-winning writer and painter, well known as an anti-apartheid activist, outspoken advocate for justice around the world. The exiled poet was born to an Afrikaner or white South African family in 1939. He moved to Paris in the early ’60s and became deeply involved with the anti-apartheid movement. In 1975, Breyten Breytenbach returned secretly to South Africa under a false...