Barely an hour into the start of the broadcast of the SABC's new SABC News (DStv 404) 24-hour news channel, the very first on-air embarrassment took place.
The new primetime SABC News anchor Peter Ndodo didn't know and use the correct name of the interim SABC chairperson Zandile Tshabalala - mistakenly referring to her as Andile, after which she publicly corrected him on live television.
With the tumultuous turn-over of the SABC board and SABC board members the past few years it is difficult for journalists to keep up but Peter Ndoro, and on a SABC channel, should have known.
When Peter Ndoro, who will now be co-anchoring the SABC's flagship news bulletin on the SABC News channel on weeknights with Vabakshnee Chetty mistakenly called Zandile, Andile, she called him out on it.
"A point of correction, my name is Zandile. Zandile, not Andile," said Zandile Tshabalala.
"Sorry, sorry for that mistake," said Peter Ndoro.
