South African Surfing Magazines Zigzag magazine was started n 1976 by Paul Naude, Doug McDonald and Mike Larmont. 33 years later, over 200 issues have been published and the mag is the 4th longest running surfing magazine in the world. The magazine holds an incredible chronological archive and holds the time line of our heritage in place. In the 1970's shorter lived publications such as Down The Line by Mike Tomson and Southern Surfer which was published by Basil Lomberg of SA Surfing Association also publicly documented our heritage. Preceding all of these by a decade was South African Surfer by Harry Bold. As I started looking into who has issues of South African Surfer Magazines I came across this literature on wavescapes.co.za: "Harry Bold became editor of the first surfing magazine, South African Surfer, which appeared in 1965. The magazine folded three years later, but it played a critical role in documenting the early days of modern surfing". Some of the older guys, like Derek Jardine and Harry Bold, are the proud owners of every issue - a valuable collection of memories". If you have copies of 'Down the Line', by Mike Tomson and 'Southern Surfer' by Basil Lomberg we'd like you to let us know. If you have copies of these or other South African surf related publications, please contact us as we are eager to know where out archives lie.

Vintage Publications

How cool is it when you come across one of your families scrap books or photo albums and start going through them, then to find out all those things that happened in their lives that they never deemed important enough to tell you about. That is what we want to provide for the South African surfing community in this part of our site. We will continue to upload vintage surfing magazines and newspaper articles from yesteryears for your enjoyment and to educate the present generation about how it happened that we as South Africans have such a uniquely rich surfing heritage.

We have been given a complete collection of Zigzag magazines and are near to completing our collection of South African Surfer Magazines. However, we are eager to present all the magazines that have commented on and reported the events and ideas that have built our surfing history, so if you have copies of the magazines shown here and wish to work with us on this project please e-mail us and well arange to get your mag scanned and published on our site.