James Matthews Writer
James Matthews is a South African poet, writer and publisher.He was detained by the apartheid government in 1976, and was denied a passport for 23 years.In 1987, he was elected as patron of the Congress of South African Writers, and he established the first black-founded art gallery in South Africa, and the first black-owned publishing house. In 2000, he founded the publishing house Realities.In 2014 Shelley Barry's documentary, Diaries of A Dissident Poet; a film profiling James Matthews, premiered at the Encounters Film Festival in South Africa.