Die Huisgenoot (Okt. - Des. 1971)

Huisgenoot is a weekly South African Afrikaans-language general-interest family magazine. It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine. It is estimated that more than two million people read Huisgenoot weekly. 

The magazine was founded as the monthly De Huisgenoot, written in Dutch, in 1916. The first magazine cost 6d (six pennies or five cents) and consisted of 26 pages. President Paul Kruger was on the cover and the main article was a life sketch on the president. The first advertisement for that issue was by Stuttafords.

There were two reasons behind its founding: to financially support the newspaper De Burger (The Citizen), which was the political mouthpiece of the Cape National Party; and provide the Afrikaner population with inspiration, information and entertainment in Afrikaans (or, utch). originally, Dutch).

While the cause of Afrikaner nationalism dominated the content of the magazine for decades, the editors of the magazine gradually had to make concessions to popular taste. Covers featuring Afrikaner heroes and politicians were replaced by ones featuring female film stars in the 1950s and 1960s. The Dutch-sounding title De Huisgenoot was changed to the more Afrikaans-sounding Die Huisgenoot and in 1977 the name was further simplified to simply Huisgenoot.