Despite his storied life as an anti-apartheid activist, journalist, poet, teacher and sports administrator, little has been written before about Dennis Brutus, who was variously detained, sentenced to jail, banned and then forced into exile by the apartheid regime. Veteran journalist turned academic, Tyrone August, edited this extract from the introduction to his new book on Brutus, which is published by the HSRC Press.

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