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Breyten Breytenbach: the greatest Afrikaner poet of his generation!

Today on culture, Clovis Casali’s guest is Breyten Breytenbach. A prolific writer as well as a distinguished painter, he is a man who fought Apartheid for decades. Consequently he was imprisoned for seven years in South African jails in the late seventies. His latest book, 'Voiceover' is a selection of poems, a tribute to his friend Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich who died in 2008.

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Breyten is angry again

by Anonyme - 09/01/2010 - 21:20

Breytenbach has made a significant statement 3 weeks ago:

"For some time now were are no longer in the paradigm of reconciliation. And no matter what those that get enjoyment from guiltily crawling on their knees in the fantasy for “black”, invisible and dead-mouthed say, every citizen of the country has the right to be treated as equals and with dignity. The Afrikaners, like all their compatriots, have the right to their own language that can be lived to its full potential, and has the right to safety and decent schools and hospitals.

We have the duty and obligation, as individuals and as culturally identifiable population group, to use each little bit of influence that we have to state our case to the international community, making clear the distinction between historical culpability (for apartheid) and survival, to fight for redress and transformation."

http://mhambi.com/2009/12/make-clear-the-distinction-between-historical-...

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titre de livres

by Anonyme - 23/12/2009 - 01:10

Bonjour!

Pourriez-vous rappeler les titres des derniers livres de Monsieur Breytenbach?

Merci beaucoup,

cordialement,

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Obama

by Anonyme - 22/12/2009 - 19:34

Sorry, Breyten, but Obama was NOT elected by folks expecting radical change.

We mainly wanted an intelligent guy, for a change.

Get out of Upper West Side of Manhattan for a minute and talk to real folk on the near south side of Chicago, rural Kansas or even Hawaii -- you'll find that he comes from complex cultures of mixed political and social viewpoints.

Too many Europeans saw him as an empty vessel that they could simply fill with THEIR ideas.

Ask him, for example, about gay rights. You might be surprised at his views. And if you are, shame on you -- you weren't really paying attention to what he said during the campaign.

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