'' Drum '' 's heyday in the 1950s fell between the Defiance Campaign and the tragedy at Sharpeville . This was the decade of potential Black emergence , the decade when the Freedom Charter was written and the decade when the ANC alliance launched the Defiance Campaign . The aim was to promote an equal society . The Nationalist government responded with apartheid crackdowns and treason trials
tragedy
Sharpeville massacre
Drum (South African magazine)