At the age of 85, Anti-Apartheid Writer Breyten Breytenbach Passes Away

Breytenbach’s family said in a statement announcing his death on Sunday that he was a poet, novelist, painter, and activist whose work touched on and affected literature and the arts both domestically and abroad.

His book “Confessions of an Albino Terrorist,” which details his 1975 treason conviction and seven years in prison, is his most well-known work. After being freed, Breytenbach settled in Paris but maintained ties to his homeland. Notably, he became a member of Okhela, the African National Congress’s intellectual branch in South Africa.

Breytenbach was a well-known poet, a prominent writer in Afrikaans, a Dutch dialect created by white colonists, and a strong opponent of apartheid, which was enforced against the nation’s Black majority from 1948 to 1990.

On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa honored a humanist who captured the militancy, sadness, and tenacity of our liberation movement via his varied artistic mediums. Despite spending a large portion of his life overseas, he was born in the Western Cape province in 1939.

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