''Voorslag'' (''Whiplash'') was a literary journal published in

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in 1926 and 1927. It was the first modern small magazine in South Africa and was subtitled "A Magazine of South African Life and Art". The magazine was founded by Roy Campbell and

William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer (10 December 1903 – 20 September 1973) was a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. He also wrote a series of librettos for Benjamin Britten. He wrote some of his poetry under the pseud ...

;

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was invited to become its

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correspondent. Campbell served as the publication's editor for three issues before resigning due to interference from his proprietor, Lewis Reynolds; Reynolds discouraged ''Voorslags criticism of the colonial system.

References

* Peter F. Alexander. ''William Plomer: A Biography'' (Oxford Lives, 1991) * Andrew Edward Van der Vlies, ''South African textual cultures: white, black, read all over'',

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, ''Unafraid of Virginia Woolf'' (ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware: 2004), pp. 81–85 Visual arts magazines Defunct literary magazines Defunct magazines published in South Africa Magazines established in 1926 Magazines disestablished in 1927 Mass media in Durban Magazines published in South Africa {{lit-mag-stub