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Breyten Breytenbach

Notable deaths of 2024 — honouring lives and legacies that helped shape history

INSPIRATIONAL FIGURES

Notable deaths of 2024 — honouring lives and legacies that helped shape history

By Shérie Vollenhoven

Masterful Breyten Breytenbach reimagined Afrikaans and SA

THE CONVERSATION

Masterful Breyten Breytenbach reimagined Afrikaans and SA

By Willie Burger

Breyten Breytenbach — Prisoner of apartheid rulers, my hero

REFLECTION

Breyten Breytenbach — Prisoner of apartheid rulers, my hero

By Anthony Akerman

Justice Johann Kriegler retires as chair of Freedom Under Law

LEGAL LEGEND OP-ED

Justice Johann Kriegler retires as chair of Freedom Under Law

By Freedom Under Law

The meaning of revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and action before and after 1990/94

REVOLUTION & FREEDOM OP-ED (PART TWO)

The meaning of revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and action before and after 1990/94

By Raymond Suttner

Breyten Breytenbach — Prisoner of consciousness, my hero

OP-ED

Breyten Breytenbach — Prisoner of consciousness, my hero

By Anthony Akerman

Anti-apartheid lawyer and UK solicitor Andrew Williamson was an all-rounder, ‘an honest and decent man’

OBITUARY

Anti-apartheid lawyer and UK solicitor Andrew Williamson was an all-rounder, ‘an honest and decent man’

By John Battersby

Unlocked: Poems for Critical Times (Series Two, Part Eight)

Maverick Citizen

Unlocked: Poems for Critical Times (Series Two, Part Eight)

By Ingrid de Kok

Cloete Breytenbach, documenter of soldiers at war

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Cloete Breytenbach, documenter of soldiers at war

By Unknown Author

GroundUp: Burning the works of anti-apartheid protest

South Africa

GroundUp: Burning the works of anti-apartheid protest

By GroundUp

GroundUp: This is probably the list of artworks UCT has removed

South Africa

GroundUp: This is probably the list of artworks UCT has removed

By GroundUp

While you were sleeping: 7 March 2017

South Africa

While you were sleeping: 7 March 2017

By John Stupart

Newsdeck

South African poet, activist awarded in Poland

By AFP

Letter to the Editor: Breyten Breytenbach on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds

South Africa

Letter to the Editor: Breyten Breytenbach on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds

By Breyten Breytenbach

Letter to the Editor: Breyten Breytenbach's anger with UCT

South Africa

Letter to the Editor: Breyten Breytenbach's anger with UCT

By Daily Maverick