Breyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… J.B.M. Hertzog, former premier of the Union of South Africa and a champion of the Afrikaans language. The prize … was a committed opponent of apartheid and left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris in 1962 with his Viëtnamese … wife Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien. He returned to South Africa with a false passport in 1975, was arrested, charged …