News at Eleven: There was the tale of attempting to flee

guards as he [Dennis Brutus] was being transported from one prison to another, jumping out of the police car at a red light and setting off in a dash. "That was when I learned what a through-and-through wound was," he said of the bullet which pierced his chest and went out his back. He told of lying on the ground bleeding, "in the shadow of the Anglo American Corporation, appropriately enough," waiting for the ambulance. When a whites-only ambulance arrived by mistake, he was not allowed in it and had to lie on the verge of death for another long period awaiting a second ambulance, this one for so-called coloreds.

from Toward Freedom: Dennis Brutus: A Small Tribute to a Giant Man

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