Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) adds weekly lifestyle talk show, Zuri, with Ayanda-Allie Paine, focusing on modern Christian women.

TBN (DStv 343) has launched a new weekly lifestyle talk show, Zuri, with Ayanda-Allie Paine on Mondays at 19:30.

The Christian-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) says the local talk show is aimed at "cosmopolitan Christian women" with Zuri that is a Swahili word, meaning "beautiful", and with the show that aims to remind women of the beauty of holiness and the power thereof.

Zuri will focus on interviews with personalities as well as thought-provoking segments to promote spiritual development and personal growth. Zuri will cover topics ranging from celibacy and money to adoption that it says is relevant and practical to the modern Christian woman.

Loyiso Bala, TBN channel director says "We are thrilled to have Ayanda join our TBN family as both a host and producer of this much-needed and exciting show".

"Zuri forms part of our 2019-strategy which is to offer quality content that is original, Afrocentric and thought-provoking."

"This collaboration with a 100% woman-owned media company shows our commitment to not only enhance our viewership experience but to also create a platform for entrepreneurs and filmmakers who are willing to walk this road with us."

eNCA anchors Joanne Joseph and Ayanda Allie-Paine both resign in latest wave of high profile exits from the TV news channel.

e.tv insiders told TVwithThinus that both the veteran anchor Joanne Joseph and Ayanda Allie-Paine are leaving eNCA (DStv 403) in the latest wave of high profile exits rocking the South African TV news channel, with eMedia Investments confirming that both have resigned.

Joanne Joseph and Ayanda Allie-Paine's resignations come hot on the heels of eNCA's former star crime and court reporter Kary Maughan who left last month, and the shock exit of Debbie Meyers, the head of current affairs at eNCA and e.tv.

Meanwhile e.tv is also gutting its long running morning show Sunrise with plans to outsource its morning breakfast show that's been on the air since April 2008 to an outside production company, with shocked e.tv staffers who have been served retrenchment notices and are likely getting fired.

One insider described a situation where "morale is at an all time low and people are desperately searching for new jobs".

The highly respected Joanne Joseph has been anchoring the 16:00 to 18:00 timeslot on eNCA, and joined the Power FM radio station in February 2017. Her exit date from eNCA has not yet been finalized.

For Ayanda Allie-Paine its the second time she's leaving eNCA - this time after less than a year after she rejoined eNCA in May 2017 to anchor eNCA's new weekend morning programming strand, Weekend Wake Up on Saturdays and Sundays.

It's not clear who will replace her, or if Weekend Wake Up on eNCA is getting canned. Ayanda Allie-Paine's abrupt last appearance on eNCA will be over the coming Easter Weekend.

eNCA in response to a media enquiry says "eNCA can confirm that Joanne Joseph and Ayanda Allie-Paine have resigned to pursue new opportunities".

"Joanne has been with eNCA for almost nine years, anchoring various programmes during her tenure. As a consummate professional with over 20 years of experience, she has tirelessly helped lead the coverage of some of the most prominent news stories of the last decade," says eNCA.

"Joanne has made a valuable contribution to the channel," says Mapi Mhlangu, eNCA editor-in-chief. "She is a formidable journalist, who has used her skills to help our viewers navigate through the key stories during a particularly turbulent period in our democracy."

eNCA says Ayanda-Allie Paine who re-joined eNCA last year "energising the channel’s Saturday and Sunday morning line-up with the Weekend Wake Up. Her dynamic interviewing style and keen journalistic skills have led to a number of memorable moments on the channel". 

"Ayanda-Allie has an infectious passion for news and development, which will be missed by her colleagues and our viewers," says Mapi Mhlangu. "We wish Ayanda and Joanne all the best in their future endeavours." 

Ayanda Allie-Paine to host new weekly SABC2 prime time talk show, Visionaries' Lounge, interviewing 'self-made' successful South Africans.

SABC2's Morning Live presenter Ayanda Allie-Paine is the host of the new SABC2 talk show Visionaries' Lounge starting tonight on SABC2 at 20:30 in which she will interview"self-made" successful South Africans.

The prime time talk show addition follows exactly two years after Ayanda Allie-Paine joined SABC2's Morning Live and the SABC News division from eNCA (DStv 403) where she was a morning anchor.

Ayanda Allie-Paine will continue her Morning Live work where is a producer and presenter while she's doing the half hour weekly Visionaries' Lounge which will run for 26 weeks.

Visionaries' Lounge is very similar to CNBC Africa's (DStv 410) Kicking Doors in which DJ Sbu interviews successful entrepreneurs in a show with a strong focus on "self-help" and individual aspiration and inspiration.

Ayanda Allie-Paine will talk to South African achievers who tell their life stories and share "personal philosophies in building a successful life determined by one's desires and dreams" and SABC2 says Visionaries' Lounge will feature guests like dr. Imtiaz Sooliman, pastor Musa Sono and community builder Mirriam Zwane.

SABC2 promises that Visionaries' Lounge won't be "shallow or pretentious" but "sincere, informative, engaging and inspirational and will certainly resonate with our audiences".

Visionaries' Lounge is shot "in a relaxed studio environment where we get to know more about our guests on how they realised their dreams to be where they are today. We talk to individuals who are deep-rooted, inspired and are self-made who turn the impossible into possibilities," says SABC2.

eNCA on-air changes as Dan Moyane, Gareth Edwards, Eleni Giokos and Nikiwe Bikitsha are on the move.

Viewers of the eNCA (DStv 403), South Africa's only independent 24-hour TV news channel continues to see an on-air sea change of faces since last month which is continuing in July and will continue into August as familiar faces left and continue to leave the channel and new faces are added.

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While the eNCA is keeping its brilliant primetime pairing of Iman Rappetti and Jeremy Maggs intact on the channel's flagship nightly newscast News Night, a swirl of changes has been happening.

Dan Moyane joined the eNCA on-air from the beginning of this month who've previously worked for eNews. He now anchors with Ayanda Allie-Paine from 06:00 to 09:00 on weekdays on the eNCA.

Nikiwe Bikitsha has been seen back on the air, reporting for the channel on Nelson Mandela after her year-long study break. The eNCA has not yet said where Nikiwe Bikitsha will be used in future.

Dan Moyane's addition is a potential interesting eNCA conflict of interest: the eNCA says Dan Moyane will "continue to play a role in the corporate sector" where he is the corporate affairs executive of MMI Holdings Limited.

It's not clear why the eNCA would put someone on as an anchor who is also a "spin doctor" of sorts. Are news anchor not supposed to be impartial and unbiased?

Apparently not at the eNCA - the now gone Macfarlane Moleli blatantly made know his own political inclinations live on the eNCA in September last year

Patrick Conroy, the group head of news at the eNCA says "Dan Moyane is one of the most experienced broadcasters in South Africa having worked for the BBC, 702 and eNews previously."

Patrick Conroy says "we will confirm Nikiwe Bikitsha's role in due course. She very kindly returned early from the United States to assist with our coverage of former president Nelson Mandela. We still have a few things to finalise but we are thrilled to have her back too."

Other major eNCA on-air changes involve Gareth Edwards moving from the morning slot to anchor the news on the eNCA now from 9:00 to 13:00.

Leaving the eNCA on-air team from August is the other major jewel in the crown of the news channel: the excellent Eleni Giokos who is going on holiday to Greece in August a year after she joined the eNCA from CNBC Africa (DStv 410).

Eleni Giokos won't be gone permanently, but she might not be back in the mornings on the eNCA when she returns where her addition to the channel with stellar coverage, intelligent conversation and informed and off-the-cuff background information she has at the tip of her fingers make for clever television.

"Eleni Giokos has now been offered a full-time contract with the eNCA and will return to play a more prominent role within the business," says Patrick Conroy.

"We are beefing up, not making wholesale changes. Dan Moyane's return to the eNCA signals our intention to add gravitas to key areas of our business," says Patrick Conroy.

"We are in discussion with a number of senior TV news people and look forward to announcing more additions to our team in the next few months," says Patrick Conroy.