After South Africa gained freedom from Apartheid their leadership has voluntarily signed on to a World Bank structural adjustment program, causing unemployment and a decline in social services. Brutus is a poet, teacher and former political prisoner.
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The enormous power of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to determine the policies of a developing country becomes apparent in South Africa. After the people gained freedom from the rule of Apartheid their present leadership has voluntarily signed South Africa on to a World Bank structural adjustment program.
Dennis Brutus says this caused massive unemployment and a decline in social services. Brutus is one of the very few voices deploring this development in his beloved country. The poet, teacher, and former political prisoner in South Africa was part of the liberation movement. Arrested and sentenced to eighteen months of hard labor on Robben Island, he spent time breaking stones with Nelson Mandela in 1963.
Brutus now lives in exile in the US. He is professor emeritus of African Studies and African Literature at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches literature and human rights at Worcester State College, Massachusetts.
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