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• Afrikaans poet released

  Mr Breyten Breytenbach, South Africa's most famous living Afrikaans poet, has been released from prison after serving seven of the nine years to which he was sentenced in 1975 for promoting the aims of the banned African National Congress (ANC). By far the best known white political prisoner in South Africa, Mr Breytenbach is also the first prisoner of note to be freed under a new policy announced earlier this year by Mr Kobie Coetsee, the Minister of Justice, which makes it possible for those convicted of "offenses against the security of the state" to qualify for remission of sentence. [Article continues to describe how political prisoners are chosen for release.]