by Thinus Ferreira
Vuyo Mvoko has exited eNCA (DStv 403) where he has been an anchor as well as the TV news channel's political editor, leaving eNCA without a political editor for the past 3 months and counting, TVwithThinus has confirmed.
Although Vuyo Mvoko has been gone from the eMedia Investments-run TV news channel carried on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform since the end of November 2020, news of his departure has not been reported before and eNCA didn't bother to announce it or to inform the media at the time.
Vuyo Mvoko joined eNCA in April 2017 after he was fired from the SABC in July 2016 as part of a purge of journalists who at the time resisted the reign of the controversial SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
Vuyo Mvoko who also anchored eNCA programming during prime time on the channel was appointed as eNCA's political editor in January 2019, a role he held for close to two years.
In September 2019 the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) found that Vuyo Mvoko had transgressed the Broadcasting Code of Conduct by mixing commentary with news presentation with eNCA that had to run an on-air apology.
eNCA in response to a media enquiry on Thursday asking whether Vuyo Mvoko had left and who is now political editor confirmed to TVwithThinus that Vuyo Mvoko had left and moved on months ago, saying "Vuyo Mvoko
left eNCA on 30 November 2020 and currently eNCA does not have a political
editor".
Asked why eNCA didn't inform the media and public with a basic statement that Vuyo Mvoko had left and the time when he exited in late-2020, an eNCA spokesperson said "In regards
to the issuing of a statement – it is the company's prerogative to choose if an
announcement will be made when an employee leaves the company".
