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RIP Breyten Breytenbach | Remembering the writer and poet

JOHANNESBURG - Tributes continue to pour in for SA author and anti-apartheid activist, Breyten Breytenbach.

The South African writer and poet died on Sunday morning in Paris, France.

READ: Breyten Breytenbach, writer who challenged apartheid, dies at 85

He is regarded as one of the foremost poets in Afrikaans and also published works in English that were translated into several other languages.

He was a vocal critic of the apartheid government and moved to the French capital for the first time in the 1960s.

Louise Viljoen from Stellenbosch University remembered his life and legacy on eNCA.

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