Angry protesters besiege Afro Worldview after owner Mzwanele Manyi abruptly cancels Prophet Mboro's shortlived Incredible Happenings show.

Despite a name change, public protests keep happening at the Midrand headquarters of what was ANN7 and is now called Afro Worldview (DStv 405) since Monday, the beleaguered former "Guptanews" channel embroiled in scandal with MultiChoice and that's now belonging to Mzwanele Manyi.

The first public protest at the Midrand premises now branded Afro Worldview happened on Thursday when protesters voiced their anger at Mzwanele Manyi for yanking off the air the short-lived and cancelled show, Incredible Happenings, of Paseka Motsoeneng, known as Prophet Mboro.

Incredible Happenings was supposed to start in March on ANN7 but failed with Paseka Motsoeneng slamming ANN7 and the channel for allegedly still being involved with the notorious and controversial Gupta family.

Then Mzwanele Manyi said it is "committed to continue working on the project".

A month later it's over and nothing came of it, with followers of the Incredible Happenings Ministries who are furious over the cancellation of the religion show before it even started on ANN7, now Afro Worldview, who failed to communicate anything about the show's cancellation to the press.

On Thursday the protesters, many of the from Cosas (the Congress of South African Students) handed a memorandum of demand to Mzawanele Manyi.

"As an organisation, we had our slot in the show that was going to be a reflection of the good work the prophet has done for both our organisation and our schools," Cosas Gauteng said in a statement.

Mzwanele Manyi said Incredible Happenings doesn't meet Afro Worldview editorial policy standards or the regulations set out by the South African broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa).

"We tried to make the show work but it was impossible for it to continue because if we had continued with it, it would have meant that MultiChoice must remove us from the platform with immediate effect".

Mzwanele Manyi has been given a 7-day ultimatum to go and address the Incredible Happenings community on why ANN7 and now Afro Worldview failed them.

They also demand a refund for money that was allegedly paid for the no-show programme to air that didn't.

Pastor Mboro's new show, Incredible Happenings, fails to start on ANN7 as he slams Mzwanele Manyi's channel as 'still having something to do with the Guptas'.

The controversial pastor Paseka "Mboro" Motsoeneng's touted new gospel show, Incredible Happenings, on ANN7 (DStv 405) failed to start on Sunday as promised, with Motsoeneng saying he pulled his show at the last minute since ANN7 is still linked with the controversial Gupta family.

ANN7 that will be going dark on DStv after MultiChoice decided to dump the channel in August, suddenly wants to add non-news shows like Incredible Happenings, changing the channel's contractual value proposition - what it is supposed to broadcast - to viewers.

Mzwanele Manyi is the new owner of ANN7 where disgruntled staffers struggled to get paid at the end of February.

Pastor Mboro said he pulled his show after discovering that ANN7 is still linked to the Guptas.

"My relationship with ANN7 started when I was approached to produce a show for the station. It was supposed to start on Sunday but there were issues I wasn't happy with since I discovered its history with the Guptas."

"They are still with the channel. When I realised it still had something to do with the Guptas and after failing to meet top manager Mzwanele Manyi, I felt I couldn't go on air."

ANN7 in a statement on Monday evening entitled "communication breakdown delays launch of new gospel show", said that "in response to pastor Paseka "Mboro" Motsoeneng's statement, ANN7 management can confirm that a meeting was held on Monday to clarify certain matters relating to an agreement to air his gospel show".

"The channel management had a successful and progressive meeting with the pastor and agreed to work together in executing the project. The meeting agreed that there was a breakdown of communication."

"Pastor Mboro's main concern relates to the inherent channel's historical matters such as trading names and the existing brand names. It is common knowledge that the media companies (ANN7 and The New Age) have recently been bought from the Gupta family-owned Oakbay Investments, there are old archives that have Gupta history and this has caused confusion in taking this project forward".

ANN7 said "Mzwanele Manyi agreed with Motsoeneng and committed the channel to continue working on the project under strict supervision".

No new possible starting date about Incredible Happenings were provided.