DRUM 1976-1980: An exhibition from the pages of Drum magazine

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Tuesday, 15 August 2006

drum.1976-1980 DRUM MAGAZINE is perhaps unique among South African publications in that it alone chronicled the apartheid years from a black perspective.

This booklet is published to coincide with a Drum Exhibition at the National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown, 30 years after the June 16, 1976 student uprising that changed the face of South Africa forever.More South Africans are alive today who had no direct experience of these turbulent times than those who did. It is appropriate therefore to record those times through the pages of Drum magazine. The pages featured in this booklet (all produced before computers reached the newsroom) are taken from the Drum 1976-1980 Exhibition and provide a glimpse of those challenging times.

The text is written by Tony Sutton who was executive editor at Drum during the latter part of the seventies. It is written as a memoir of his association with the magazine and its late owner/publisher, Jim Bailey.

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Seretse Clement Moche said:

Let us stop embarrasing ourselves

i want to urge South African public especially the youth that there is no shortcut to success and wealth. the reason being the recent arrest of SAA staff. Rushing to becoming rich by sacrificing your happiness at the expense of Smugglers can only leave you and your future in tatters. Let us rather study and work hard rather serving in jails because of greed

March 04, 2009

vuyani obert viki said:

hi there we are a group of three, who are trying to do the positive in life, but struggling to get a chance to prove ourselves. since we live in a disadvantage community.so we are takig this opportunity to ask you to pls give us an opportunity to do cartoons as we already have our charecters .please do consider us we all live in cape town

January 26, 2009

Nomakhosazana Mpeta said:

Just wanted to say I like your magazine especially when am having coffe playing the cross word puzzle.However would like to encourage you to include the soduku as well to keep the fire of the magazine burning.

September 20, 2008

Tony Sutton said:

Thought you'd like to know that you've linked to the wrong DRUM (this is a drumming magazine which, interestingly is what I thought Drum was when I saw the job advert - see Page 6 of the download).

The correct link for Drum magazine in South Africa is http://www.drum.co.za (well, sort of, the site is still under construction).

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