The Golden City Post was a tabloid[1] newspaper that ran alongside the more well known Drum magazine. [2][3] The two titles were set up in the 1950s and financed and managed by their proprietor, James Richard Abe Bailey. Jim Bailey took on the role of editor of the magazine, and set a clear editorial policy. He then paired the magazine with a newspaper, The Golden City Post, established in 1955.[4][5] Although the Golden City Post is less well known than its sister publication, both the paper and the magazine gave black journalists the copy space to report on the scene in Sophia Town,[6] its jazz singers, boxers, cover girls and their individuals stories[7] while also making visible the inequities, injustices and cruelties[8] facing black urban South Africans under Apartheid.[9][10] DRUM readership peaked at 5 million [8] but then declined, with the ‘The Golden City Post’ including the magazine as a fortnightly supplement.[2]
The Golden City Post was closed down in 1977. In 1982, Jim Baily and the South African Associated Newspapers [11] re-launched the paper as the Golden City Press. But the partnership failed and Naspers,[12] purchased both City Press and Drum magazine on the 1 April 1984[13]
External Sites
editBailey's African History Archive
- ^ Horwitz, Robert Britt (2001). Communication and democratic reform in South Africa. Internet Archive. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-01221-1.
- ^ a b https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/lifestyle/the-beat-goes-on-70-years-of-telling-the-south-african-story-6a47d8a4-0d9c-4b13-81db-0634086ad76f
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110607064014/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/bailey_j.htm
- ^ Kalane, L. (2018) THE CHAPTER WE WROTE, the City Press story, media and politics in a changing South Africa
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20240908131205/https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/lifestyle/the-beat-goes-on-70-years-of-telling-the-south-african-story-6a47d8a4-0d9c-4b13-81db-0634086ad76f
- ^ https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/01/26/cover-girls-of-the-anti-apartheid/
- ^ "How to defy apartheid? For journalist Juby Mayet, with pen in hand". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ a b "Jim Bailey | News | The Guardian". web.archive.org. 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ Les Switzer (ed.), South Africa's Alternative Press: voices of protest and resistance, 1880s-1960s, Cambridge University Press, 1997
- ^ https://www.everand.com/book/641526197/The-Chapter-we-Wrote-The-City-Press-Story
- ^ https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/end-of-an-era-media24-to-close-iconic-newspapers/
- ^ Apartheid Inc. – Profile of a racist corporation, June 9, 2010". History Matters. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 08 September 2024.
- ^ Gongo, K. (2008). “Distinctly African”: The representation of Africans in City Press. University of Witwatersrand: Johannesburg