The poet’s uneasiness with surroundings was abundant in Breton. In the colonial countries of Africa, there was a division where ‘Afrikaans’ was the language of the white rulers, while the ruled Bahujan groups spoke their own tribal dialects. Apartheid between whites and blacks was everywhere. Breiten Breitenbach strongly refused to live like this. Despite having the ability to write poetry in English or French, he expressed the sufferings of the underprivileged in Afrikaans and through this act insisted that this language belongs to all South Africans. Born in 1939, Bretagne belonged to a wealthy family, so he could afford to go to Paris at the age of twenty-one to study painting. But in Paris, a young woman from Vietnam, Yolande Ngo Thi Hon Lin, became his friend, lover and later wife. Soyrik Breten said that it will create embarrassment before the ‘black-white’ apartheid in South Africa. But the government did not die. That government declared that our laws meant that whites should not intermarry with any other race, and forbade Britons to repatriate their wives. This story is from the year 1962.

A few years later, Britain returned with the determination to do everything possible to overthrow such a government – that too under a false name, a false one.

with passport. Here he was involved in establishing ‘Okhela’ – an organization of whites who helped the blacks in their struggle. ‘Okhela’ was ready to serve as the glorified wing of Nelson Mandela’s ‘African National Congress’. But in no time Bretten was caught, declared a ‘dangerous extremist’ and spent seven consecutive years in prison. It was during this period that he wrote the self-centered but inspiring book ‘Confessions of an Albino Terrorist’ (1980). After the release, Bretain, who had been a Parisian since 1985 and had also acquired French citizenship, was not silent. Apart from his own poetry and prose, he also translated the poems of Palestinian poet Mehmood Darwish. The poet who lived the poetry of human liberation is lost with his death.