James Matthews: 'black voices shout!'

SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Houston
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, JOURNALISM, MATTHEWS, JAMES, POLITICS
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11808
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15865
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15865

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Abstract

South African journalist, poet, author and publisher James Matthews was an outspoken critic of apartheid, and a proponent of a form of black pride based more on the Black Panthers than the Black Consciousness Movement. His writings were widely used by various individuals and organisations to further their aims, but he was never a 'joiner'. He supported movements and allowed them to use his work, but he always remained fiercely independent, so that he would never be required to 'toe the party line'.

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