Die Brandwag was the first illustrated family magazine published in Afrikaans in the Transvaal, appearing monthly between 1910 and 1922 under the joint editorship of Dr W M R Malherbe and Gustav Preller.
For its time it maintained a high literary standard with contributions coming from the foremost Afrikaans poets and writers.
Articles on music, sculpture and painting appeared regularly, with a large section devoted to art reproductions.
Its first members of staff included well-known literary figures such as Elisabeth Eybers, Uys Krige and S. Ignatius Mocke.
The magazine began to feature mainly short stories and popular reading matter, and served as a nursery for thriller writers.