Mapula Nkosi to take the reins at Daily Sun, Sunday Sun

Sunday World editor Mapula Nkosi will take up the role of Daily Sun and Sunday Sun editor-in-chief from 1 June 2019. She has an honours degree in journalism from the University of the Witwatersrand and completed a postgraduate diploma in marketing and business management at Unisa.

A seasoned journalist, she has held several senior editorial positions in a career that started in 1997 as a news writer at City Press, where she was promoted to lifestyle editor before joining True Love as deputy editor in 2008. Nkosi was then appointed as the deputy editor of the Sowetan in 2012 and took up her current position in 2017 - in both instances as the first female appointee.