Author and Apartheid Opponent Dead

The South African author and apartheid opponent Breyten Breytenbach has passed away.

He died in Paris at the age of 85, according to his daughter for AFP.

Breyten Breytenbach left South Africa in the early 1960s and settled in Paris.

He was engaged in the fight against the apartheid regime and was imprisoned in South Africa in the 1970s when he was in the country.

After seven years in prison, including two in solitary confinement, he was released in 1982. He returned to France, where he became a citizen.

Breyten Breytenbach wrote around 50 books during his lifetime, including "True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist".