Breyten Breytenbach, leading Afrikaans poet, was acquitted of charges under the Terrorism and Riotous Assemblies Acts, but was found guilty of smuggling letters in and out of prison, on 15 July 1977. He was fined R50 or 30 days jail on 15 counts under the Prisons Act.
Breytenbach is already serving a nine-year prison sentence after being convicted under the Terrorism Act in November 1975. The main allegation in the second trial was that Breytenbach procured the co-operation of a prison warder to further the aims of an allegedly revolutionary organisation, Okhela.
