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Dennis Brutus, anti-apartheid activist and poet, will lecture here March 18 - English
URL: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/3.11.04/Brutus_visit.html

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AllRefer Encyclopedia - Dennis Vincent Brutus (South African Literature, Biographies) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/B/Brutus-D.html

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South African poet, b. Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Brutus grew up in South Africa and received (1947) his B.A. from its Univ. of Fort Hare at Alice. He taught high school from 1948 until 1962, when as a result of his political activism, notably his protests against all-white South African sports, he was fired from his job and imprisoned (1963) on the infamous Robben Island. In 1966 his works were banned, and he was sent into exile. His testimony concerning apartheid helped win support for the ban against South Africa's participation in the 1970 Olympic Games.

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Dennis Brutus - English
URL: http://cosmos.oninetspeed.pt/chacma/SAfrican/html/dennis_brutus.htm

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Dennis Brutus Speech - English
URL: http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/barbrutus.htm

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South Africa: Transition to Freedom?

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Dennis Brutus's ZNet HomePage - English
URL: http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=129

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Literary Encyclopedia: Brutus, Dennis Vincent - English
URL: http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=621

Dennis Brutus, poet and anti-apartheid sports activist, has been a champion of human rights his entire life. His poetry is political, but ranges from the lyrical intensity of A Simple Lust and the narrative complexity of Letters to Martha to the, at times, slack, occasional and sloganeering. This degeneration has less to do with a loss of his poetic skills than with an increasingly political and impatient “literary” environment among the oppressed in South Africa.

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Brutus, Dennis Vincent - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0809248.html

South African poet, b. Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Brutus grew up in South Africa and received (1947) his B.A. from its Univ. of Fort Hare at Alice. He taught high school from 1948 until 1962, when as a result of his political activism, notably his protests against all-white South African sports, he was fired from his job and imprisoned (1963) on the infamous Robben Island. In 1966 his works were banned, and he was sent into exile. His testimony concerning apartheid helped win support for the ban against South Africa's participation in the 1970 Olympic Games.

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Brutus, Dennis - English
URL: http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/89/89.html

in full DENNIS VINCENT BRUTUS (b. Nov. 28, 1924, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia [now Harare, Zimbabwe]), poet whose works centre on his sufferings and those of his fellow blacks in South Africa. For 14 years Brutus taught English and Afrikaans in South Africa. His outspoken protests against racial discrimination (apartheid) resulted in an 18-month term in prison, as well as his being banned from teaching, writing, publishing, attending social or political meetings, and pursuing studies in law at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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