With the Sharpville Massacre of 1960, the world took an interest in South Africa and so in 1961, he was asked to write an article entitled "The Human Meaning of Apartheid" for "The New York Times"."Drum" struggled to keep its black writers due to the severe restriction they found themselves in and many went into exile in Europe or America. In 1963, he announced the formation of a quarterly literary magazine called "The Classic", a magazine in English for African intellectual writers and poets from any race around Africa. The first year's printing would be funded by Professor John Thompson of the Farfield Foundation, that unknown to Nakasa was funded by the CIA in order to cultivate a pro-American intellectual elite around the world. It first published in June 1963 and would feature writers such as Can Themba, Ezekiel Mphahlele, and Casey Motsisi. Doris Lessing and Leopold Senghor would feature in other issues and would later be edited by writer Barney Simon. In 1963, the "Publications and Entertainment Act" was passed which allowed the South African government broad powers to ban or censor content it deemed unfavourable to the interest of the country, further hindering Nakasa's work as he attempted to stay within the law.