DRUM (South African magazine)

DRUM
CategoriesFamily magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1951
Final issue16 July 2020 (print)
CompanyMedia24
CountrySouth Africa
Based inJohannesburg
LanguageEnglish
Websitedrum.co.za

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).

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.