Emsie Ferreira
Ramaphosa leads tributes for James Matthews
/ 8 September 2024

Ramaphosa leads tributes for James Matthews

President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to Cape Town poet and author James Matthews as an impassioned but elegant chronicler of the struggle against apartheid. Matthews, regarded as one of the early Black Consciousness poets, died in Cape Town on Saturday. He was 95. “James Matthews’s voice will ring in our consciousness following his departure […]