Breyten Breytenbach
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Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisone
Breytenbach in 1995
Breytenbach in 1983
Breytenbach with art works, 1995
Breytenbach in 2009
Afrikaans
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and also Argentina, where a group in Sarmiento speaks a Patagonian dialect. It
Breyten Breytenbach
…des Dames du Temps Jadis", Breytenbach compared Afrikaner dissidents Peter Blum, Ingrid Jonker, and himself to unfaithful lovers, who had betrayed Afrikaans poetry by taking leave of it. In 1984, he published The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist…
Obelisks of the Afrikaans Language Monument near Paarl
Standard Dutch used in a 1916 South African newspaper before Afrikaans replaced it for use in media
"Dit is ons erns" ("This is our earnestness"), at the Afrikaans Language Monument
The side view of the Pretoria Art Museum, in Arcadia, Pretoria, with its name written in Afrikaans, Xhosa and Southern Ndebele