PUBLISHER and author Jim Bailey, who launched the pioneering black magazine Drum in 1951, has died at the age of 80 after a brief illness. Knighted in 1996 for his publishing efforts in Africa, Bailey was at the helm of Drum in the Fifties and Sixties, when it was the voice of people in the townships and featured the work of such legendary journalists as Can Themba, Nat Nakasa and Casey Motsisi. The son of mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey, he was a Battle of Britain air force pilot who used his inheritance to form what would become the largest magazine aimed at black audiences in Africa. In recent years, he was involved in a bitter legal wrangle with photographer Jurgen Schadeburg over copyright of the many classic images from this era that reside in Bailey’s African archives.