“We need to stop thinking about ourselves in an exclusive way – as a Xhosa, or a coloured, or an Indian – and start thinking about ourselves as South Africans.”
21 ICONS is a showcase for the South African spirit; a tribute to the men and women who have helped to shape our country and, indeed, our world.
21 ICONS features the ninth icon of its second season: ‘the Dissident Poet’, James Matthews, a political prisoner who was born in District Six and used literature as a vehicle to oppose the Apartheid regime. He has published several collections of poetry, short stories as well as a novel and has won numerous literary awards for his work.