Breyten Breytenbach
Acting
September 16, 1939 (86 years old)
Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa
Biography
Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.
