At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and reassertion of one of humankind’s oldest forms of ...

He joined the voice of a new generation of Afrikaans writers emerging in 1960s South Africa. His first book of poetry The Iron Cow Must Sweat (in Afrikaans) and compilation of stories Catastrophes ...

"They played an important role for the international community to know what was happening in South Africa ... of apartheid, but some people would sympathise through music or poetry with what ...

He left South Africa for France in 1960 due ... literary movement strongly opposing the apartheid regime. Breytenbach published his first poetry collection, Die ysterkoei moet sweet, in Afrikaans ...

LISTEN: Breyten Breytenbach – on Afrikaans, Poetry and Power With Afrikaners in power during apartheid ... In 1960 he left South Africa for a self-imposed exile, mostly in Europe, but he ...