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Political Fiction, Representation and the Canon: The Case of Mtutuzeli Matshoba

By the early 1970s, it was obvious that the crackdown on black political organisations and anti-apartheid groups of the previous decade was under challenge from a combative new ideology which had taken root among young black intellectuals: the ideology of Black Consciousness. In the face of apartheid's divisive racial policies, these young men and women realised that apartheid could only be resisted by a new demeanour among black people, both on an individual and collective level; and a number of organisations relating to political, community self-help, worker and other issues were formed from 1968 onwards. Black Consciousness constructed its appeal on a rejection of assimilation and the gradualist, ameliorative politics of the past. Stressing instead the need for black unity and self-reliance, it promoted the positive attributes of pride, assertion, and the need to formulate black viewpoints and goals to counteract both white racism and the sway white liberal views had held over black political initiatives in the past. It can readily be seen that the ideological thrust of this new philosophy