President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to Cape Town poet and author James Matthews as an impassioned but elegant chronicler of the struggle against aparthei
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.YouTube screengrab of a James Matthew video by Yazeed Kamaldien on the channel Hello Slaapstadas an impassioned but elegant chronicler of the struggle against apartheid., died in Cape Town on Saturday. He was 95.
Matthews was called “a true artist” whose writing gave a voice to those who were silenced by apartheid by the Western Cape government. He attended Trafalgar High School where a teacher named Miss Meredith proclaimed that he was a writer after marking one of his compositions.
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