Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009

found: His Letters to Martha, and other poems from a South African prison, 1968.

found: WW among Black Americans, 1990/91(Brutus, Dennis Vincent (John Bruin); univ. educator; b. 11/28/1924, Harare, Zimbabwe)

found: New York times WWW site, Dec. 28, 2009(in obituary published Dec. 27: Dennis Brutus; b. 1924, Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]; d. Saturday [Dec. 26, 2009], Cape Town, aged 85; South African poet and former political prisoner who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system; published Thoughts abroad in 1970 under the pseudonym John Bruin)

found: African American Studies Center, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brutus, Dennis Vincent; John Bruin; poet, educator, political activist; born 28 November 1924 in Harare, Zimbabwe; attended South African Native College (later University of Fort Hare) (1944-1946); co-founded South African Sports Association, East (1963) and South African Council on Sport (1973); apartheid police placed him under house arrest for political activism (1960-1966); attempted to leave the country but was arrested by the Mozambican police and he was sentenced to prison on Robben Island; spent time with Nelson Mandela in the limestone quarry; left South Africa on an exit visa (1966); worked for Defence and Aid Fund, London; lectured at Northwestern University and Dartmouth University (1970); created a coalition that forced the IOC to expel South Africa from the Olympic games (1970); died 26 December 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa))