The Sunday Independent is a weekly English-language newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa.
[citation needed] The Sunday Independent is owned by Sekunjalo Consortium, the controlling shareholder of the Independent Newspapers, which also owns Cape Times, The Star, Pretoria News, and Cape Argus among others.
The current chairman is South African billionaire entrepreneur Iqbal Survé, who assumed the role in 2013.
Survé is accused of removing credible journalists and editors and replacing them with sycophants who write favourably about him and his business empire.
[citation needed] The Sunday Independent's coverage focuses on daily national, local, and worldwide news and analysis.