Drum (South African magazine)
South African magazine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Drum (South African magazine)?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
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 |
---|---|
Frequency | Weekly |
Founded | 1951 |
Final issue | 16 July 2020 (print) |
Company | Media24 |
Country | South Africa |
Based in | Johannesburg |
Language | English |
Website | drum |
In 2005 Drum was described as "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa",[1] 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.[2]