South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

FILE - South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach receives the 2017 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award at a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, May 25, 2017. He died in Paris, his family announced on Nov. 24, 2024.

South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government's apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family announced on Sunday. He was 85.