Drum Magazine

Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.

From rare Ernest Cole prints to iconic portraits of Makeba and Masekela, this show captures the musicians and the energy of live music itself

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…

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…

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…

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.

The press ombud has instructed "Drum" magazine to apologise to Top Billing presenter Bonang Matheba.

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.