Showing posts with label Africa 360. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa 360. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

BREAKING. Chris Maroleng exiting eNCA as the second high-ranking on-air talent leaving the South African TV news channel after 6 years.


Chris Maroleng is exiting eNCA (DStv 403) as the second high-ranking on-air talent who has been with the 24-hour TV news channel for six years and who is now leaving.

Following eNCA's chief meteorologist Derek van Dam who is leaving eNCA after six years is Chris Maroleng, eNCA's Africa editor, whose last day with eNCA will be on 12 July.

Chris Maroleng is leaving for the corporate world.

He led the team which started eNews Africa in 2009 and has built up the channel's Africa division, which included the setting up of news bureaux in Nairobi and Lagos, and was the anchor of the weekly show Africa 360.

"eNCA can confirm that Chris Maroleng has resigned," says Ben Said, eNCA group news editor.

"The good work done by Chris and his team will continue. eNCA remains committed to bringing credible and balanced news from around the African continent. He will be greatly missed for his knowledge and expertise. eNCA wish him well in his new endeavour".

Friday, June 17, 2011

Africa 360 with Chris Maroleng snags an exclusive sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton this Saturday on the eNews Channel.


Chris Maroleng, anchor of the weekly Africa 360 current affairs show on the eNews Channel (DStv 403; the eAfrica channel (DStv 114) elsewhere in Africa) has snagged an exclusive sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton, the United States secretary of State, set to be broadcast this Saturday 18 June at 11:30.

Hillary Clinton was attending the African Growth and Opportunity Act Summit held in Zambia, Lusaka and agreed to an interview with Africa 360. During Chris Maroleng's exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton she speaks out about issues ranging from African women in business to Africa's investment relations with China.


Chris Maroleng also asked Hillary Clinton on her views about youth participation in governance, how America sees the political situation in Cote d'Ivoire as well as NATO's controversial operations in Libya.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Programming note: Chris Maroleng scores an exclusive sit-down with Sudanese president for Africa 360.


You're reading it here first.

Chris Maroleng has scored an exclusive sit-down interview with Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan that will be broadcast on the eNews Channel (DStv 403) on Saturday, October 9 at 11:30 in Africa 360.

Due to the Darfur violence where about a quarter of a million people have been murdered, Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for the atrocities committed there.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

BREAKING. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission rules ''Don't touch me on my studio'' to be fair.


Earlier today the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has ruled that the  whole ''Don't touch me on my studio'' live on-air disruption on the eNews Channel (DStv 403) was fair towards the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), and in the ruling rejected complaints by the political party that AWB secretary general Andre Visagie was treated unfairly.

In April, after the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, host Chris Maroleng of the Africa 360 current affairs show on the eNews Channel, had a panel debate with in-studio guests Andre Visagie and political analyst Lebohang Pheko. It wasn't long before live pandemonium ensued in the studio that created an instant buss-worthy TV moment.

"It is understandable that e.tv, by arranging a debate of this nature so soon after the murder, was courting trouble - and trouble was soon to come," said the BCCSA in its ruling earlier today. ''Despite the interruptions, the heated debate and the fiasco at the end, I think that each party had the opportunity to put its viewpoint on this controversial matter to the viewing public,'' the BCCSA said in its ruling.

ALSO READ and WATCH the video HERE: The eNews Channel and the AWB make headlines with ''Don't touch me on my studio'' on-air fiasco.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

TV MOMENT OF THE WEEK: eNews Channel and AWB make headlines with ''Touch me on my studio'' and saying ''I am not finished with you''.



The eNews Channel (DStv 403) and its Africa 360 current affairs show, hosted by Chris Maroleng, is still making headlines and waves around the world after this live on-air disruption Wednesday.

The studio pandemonium that ensued, involved verbal threats and sparring with the host, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) secretary general Andre Visagie, political analyst Lebohang Pheko, and the eNews Channel production crew who intervened.

This TV moment has now been played in TV news bulletins and on TV news networks around the world. It has now been viewed thousands of times on YouTube. There's now even two music remixes - a Mo Circle mix and a very funny Hammertime remix - both on YouTube making fun of it all.







Not since Prince Sifiso Zulu stormed into the SABC's Durban studio on Sunday 25 September, 1994 with a handgun during a live broadcast on TV1 of Freek Robinson and Agenda with IFP leader dr. Mangosothu Buthelezi, have South African TV viewers seen a live TV current affairs show get disrupted like this.