As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a photography lecturer, reflecting with a group of students on the picture frames by freelance photojournalist Jacob Mawela. The museum itself has a chequered history starting […]
A nighttime haunt in the backstreets of Orlando run by a well-known bootlegger should have been a prime zone for nefarious underworld activities. Instead, it nurtured an underground of a different kind
This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was also South Africa’s first ‘media event’. And, despite the NP’s, and the SABC’s, attempt to control the narrative, the force of Madiba’s personality meant that he emerged as a celebrity
Our photographic heritage is being stolen by pirates peddling ‘pictures of pictures’
Jürgen Schadeberg’s images form a vital part of our archive but, like a photo, what his memoir reveals is selective
Photographer, filmmaker and activist Peter McKenzie — ‘who wielded his camera the way other people use petrol bombs or saxophones’ — has died
From being a starlet in Sophiatown through to a disfiguring assault, Thandi Klaasen’s capacity for resilience meant she just kept on singing.
Nat Nakasa, who died in 1965, was one of those who were ground down by the alienation of exile. A friend recalls the time.
As the body of South African anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa makes its way home, we remember him in five pieces of writing.
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The press ombud has instructed "Drum" magazine to apologise to Top Billing presenter Bonang Matheba.
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/ 25 December 2011
Cover pages of SA’s iconic <em>Drum</em> magazine evoke a 1950s black fashion and jazz culture which perished when apartheid forces razed Sophiatown.
<i>British Magnum</i> photographer Ian Berry’s odyssey in South Africa is charted in an exhibition at the Liverpool International Slavery Museum.
Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. Humphrey Tyler was the only reporter there when the police opened fire.
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/ 21 September 2008
In an edited extract from his new book, <i>The Indian in Drum</i>, Riason Naidoo shares his journey to find a nuanced picture of Indian identity.
Three decades of journalism by Max Du Preez was recognised on Saturday when he was awarded the prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for fearless writing.
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/ 3 February 1995
FOUR black-and-white images of Nelson Mandela in his autobiography are at the centre of the row between Jim Bailey and a former Drum photographer.