JOHANNESBURG, NOVEMBER 25: South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority Government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family announced Sunday. Breytenbach is best known for Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, his account of his imprisonment and the events leading to it. His work addressed themes of exile, identity and justice, his family said. Breytenbach was a poet, novelist, painter and activist whose work touched on and influenced literature and the arts both domestically and abroad, his family added. He joined Okhela, an ideological wing of South Africa’s African National Congress, in exile, but remained deeply connected to his South African roots.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 25, 2024 15:54 UTC