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ABSTRACT
An account of the testimony of Dennis Brutus in court in South Africa.
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Notes
1. Dennis Brutus, “Memoir: From Protest to Prison.” Poetry & Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader, ed. Leo Sustar and Aisha Karim Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006. 38.
2. Patrick Bond, “Foreword.” Time with Dennis Brutus: Conversations, Quotations, and Snapshots, ed. Cornelius Thomas East London, South Africa: Wendy's Book Lounge, 2012. vi.
3. Brutus, “Memoir,” 28.
4. Ibid., 38–9.
5. Brutus, “Recollections.” in The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2011. 16, 116. Much of the rest of Brutus’ account of what happened to him comes from this source, and the relevant page numbers from Tapes have been inserted in the text.
6. The full transcript of this trial is held at the Historical Papers Research Archive at the University of the Witwatersrand under the title “The State v. Dennis Vincent Brutus in the Regional Court for the District of Johannesburg” in TRIALS, Court Records, 1858–1978, Collection AD1901, Item 14.2, 140 pp. Brutus’ testimony appears on pp. 103–07. The sentence follows on pp. 108–11. All quotations from Brutus’ remarks are taken from these pages and marked as Transcript.
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Bernth Lindfors
Bernth Lindfors is a professor Emeritus of English and African literature at the University of Texas at Austin.