Drum (South African magazine)
DRUM is a South African online family magazine mainly aimed at black readers, containing market news, entertainment and feature articles. It has two sister magazines: Huisgenoot (aimed at White and Coloured Afrikaans-speaking readers) and YOU (aimed at demographically diverse South African English-speaking readers of different ethnicities to inform, inspire and entertain them by offering its own brand of coverage on current events and interesting people).
| Categories | Family magazine |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Final issue | 16 July 2020 (print) |
| Company | Media24 |
| Country | South Africa |
| Based in | Johannesburg |
| Language | English |
| Website | drum |
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In 2005 Drum was described as "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa", but it is noted chiefly for its early 1950s and 1960s reportage of township life under apartheid. From July 2020 the magazine became an online magazine.
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