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ABSTRACT
It cannot be denied that the blacks in South Africa has been placed under detention, torture, brutality, oppression, racial discrimination, deprivation for many years by the white government in South Africa through the use of “Apartheid Policy” which is a system that is governed in form of harsh relation between the minority (whites) and the majority (blacks) who originally are the real owner of the land. The system is known for ‘violating civil and political rights of the blacks in form of heavy discrimination against the blacks. Dennis Brutus being a contemporary South African poet employs his traditional forms and rich language his poetry to detail without self-pity or bitterness, due to the physical and mental anguish he had suffered as a political prisoner and as an exile and he is well known for antiapartheid movement and has opposed apartheid in almost all his literary works. This study examines Violation of Civil and Political Rights in the poetry of Dennis Brutus ‘Simple Lust’ and argues that arbitrary arrest, torture and genocide are the offshoots. And this study therefore concludes that unless violation of civil and political rights is reduced to the barest minimum, these canker worms will continue to be the bane of arbitrary arrest, torture and genocide for blacks over the world.
