1906–1909: Founding editor George Herbert Kingswell launched the
Sunday Times and
Rand Daily Mail for owner
Sir Abe Bailey. Kingswell was initially offered the job at The Rand Daily Mail (The Fourth Estate, Joel Mervis), but instead looked to create a weekly paper.
1909–1910: Lewis Rose Macleod named editor.
1910–1942': Joseph Langley Levy, a drama critic and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, was born in Liverpool, England, on 25 May 1887. He was editor of the
Sunday Times for 32 years, during which time circulation rose from 35,000 to 150,000, penetrating every province and reaching towns and villages scattered over an area of almost half a million square miles. He died in Johannesburg on 11 May 1945.
1942–1947': E.B 'Chook' Dawson is remembered as the first of the paper's 'shirtsleeves editors', a journalist who hated ostentation in either people or prose. At the time of his death in 1957, he was also remembered as a hero of Delville Wood who saved a comrade's life during the epic battle in
World War I.
1947–1958: N. A. G. Caley named editor
1959–1975: Joel Mervis, as editor of the Sunday Times, is credited with transforming it into the most widely read and powerful weekly in South Africa.
1975–1990: Albert
Tertius Myburgh (26 December 1936 – 2 December 1990) was a South African journalist and editor, best known as editor of the
Sunday Times. Myburgh resigned as editor of the
Sunday Times in September 1990 after 15 years. His next role was to be an ambassador to Washington or London. Four days later, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died at home in December of the same year.
1991–1996:
Ken Owen named editor.
1996–1998: Brian Pottinger was also the deputy chair of the
South African National Editor's Forum during this time. He became the managing director of Times Newspapers Limited and, in 2000, would be appointed as publisher of the
Sunday Times. From 2003 to 2007, he was the chief executive officer of the Africa Division for Johnnic Communications Limited.
1998–2000: Mike Robertson was the editor and associate publisher for the
Sunday Times during this period. He was the deputy editor, chief assistant editor, assistant editor, and political correspondent for the newspaper. He is the publisher of the
Sunday Times and managing director of Times Media Group's media operations.
2002–2003: Mathatha Tsedu was the deputy editor of the
Sunday Independent, the deputy editor of the Star, then the Deputy Chief executive of the SABC news before becoming editor of the
Sunday Times in 2002. In 2003, he was dismissed as editor of the
Sunday Times. In 2014, the SA National Editors' Forum announced that Mathatha Tsedu would serve as its executive director.
2004–2010: Mondli Makhanya was appointed as editor of
Sunday Times. A political writer and editor, he became the Mail & Guardian editor in 2002 before joining the
Sunday Times in 2004. In 2010, Makhanya was promoted to editor-in-chief of Avusa Media newspapers (including The Times and Sowetan, Sunday World).
2010–2013: Ray Hartley was the founding editor of the daily newspaper
The Times in 2007 before taking over the reins as Editor of the
Sunday Times in 2010 after Makhanya left. During Hartley's tenure as editor,
Sunday Times journalists won virtually all the awards on offer, including the prestigious Standard Bank Sivukile and Taco Kuiper awards for investigative journalism. He is currently an editor at large for the Times Media Group and launched the Rand Daily Mail website in 2014.
2013–2015: Phylicia Oppelt became the first female editor of the Sunday Times. Oppelt was the editor of the Daily Dispatch from 2005 to 2008 and the editor of
Business Times from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, she was appointed editor of
The Times, which had entered the market in June 2007 under Hartley's editorship.
2016–2020: Bongani Siqoko is the former editor of the award-winning
Daily Dispatch,
Saturday Dispatch and DispatchLIVE. He has been with the
Daily Dispatch since November 2004, having held many positions at the newspaper – news editor, managing editor, and deputy editor – before he was appointed editor in June 2013. He holds an MA in International Journalism from City University London, United Kingdom.
2020 to present: S'thembiso Msomi became the new editor in the first quarter of 2020. Msomi has 24 years of journalism experience and was editor of the
Sowetan for two years before his most recent appointment. Msomi returns to the
Sunday Times as he was previously deputy editor. He also held the position of political editor of the
Sunday Times and
City Press. He is the author of the unauthorised biography of the previous DA leader, Mmusi Maimane. ==Bibliography==