This is an edited extract from a new biography about Dennis Brutus, the anti-apartheid activist, poet and author. Brutus died in 2009. The extract records Brutus’s reluctance to write about his life ...

Dennis Brutus, an inspired proponent of human equality, died on December 26, 2009. The South African poet was an indelible figure in the fight against apartheid, particularly in the world of athletics ...

Renowned South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus died in his sleep on December 26th in Cape Town. He was 85 years old. Brutus was a leading opponent of the apartheid state. He helped secure ...

South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus has died at 85. His publisher, Chicago-based Haymarket Books, said the writer died in his sleep at his home in Cape Town. Mr Brutus was ...

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...

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South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died at 85.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Dennis Brutus was a Political Prisoner for South Africa with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1984 Meeting as a Professor for the Northwestern ...

During his lifetime, South African poet Dennis Brutus made incredible contributions to the fight against apartheid. Brutus died on December 26,... In Memoriam: Activist Poet Dennis Brutus Dennis ...