Breyten Breytenbach
Acting·September 16, 1939 — 86 years old·Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa
Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.
