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Today, 34 years ago, Afrikaans poet and novelist Breyten Breytenbach was released from prison─── 11:34 Fri, 02 Dec 2016
OFM News/Photo: slipnet.co.za
After serving a prison term of nine years under the terrorism act, well-known anti-apartheid and Afrikaner writer Breyten Breytenbach was released on 2 December 1982.
Breytenbach was sentenced under the Terrorism Act and charged with attempting to open a white wing branch of the African National Congress (ANC), Okhela or Atlas .
He was released after immense international intervention and asserted pressure on the South Africa’s apartheid government.
Shortly, after his release from prison Breytenbach left South Africa to live in France.
Source: South African History Online
Compiled by Moeketsi Mogotsi/OFM News
