BREAKING. eNews anchor Pat Pillai dumps eNews as e.tv moves its English TV news bulletin out of primetime to a late night audience.

The longtime eNews Prime Time anchor Pat Pillai has dumped eNews as e.tv is moving its popular English language out of prime time to make way for a new Zulu TV news bulletin and moving its English news broadcast to a late night audience.

e.tv confirmed that Pat Pillai has resigned after a decade at e.tv. Pat Pillai in a statement says "I will miss the people I've worked with and the viewers who tuned in regularly."

Pat Pillai will read his final eNews bulletin on e.tv on Thursday 26 February at 19:00.

From Monday 2 March the eNews Prime Time news bulletin - what used to be South Africa's most watched English language TV news bulletin - is moved an hour and a half later to 20:30 to make way for eNews Izindaba at 18:30 and the soap Rhythm City moving to 19:00.

e.tv says the later English news will now "cater for a later evening news audience".

With its prime time schedule shift e.tv is aggressively going after SABC viewers and Zulu TV news viewers not getting what they want to see from the public broadcaster.

Pat Pillai now wants to "focus more on his youth development work at Life College, an organisation he founded in 1997".

"Pat Pillai has played an enormous role at eNews over the past 10 years," says Patrick Conroy, who is now the managing director of e.sat.

"He has helped us turn our nightly newscast into the most watched English news bulletin in the country," says Patrick Controy, saying Pat Pillai "remains a close friend of all of us at eNews".

Macfarlane Moleli returns to the e.tv fold after leaving eNCA in May; will now anchor eNews Prime Time on Mondays and Wednesdays at 19:00.

Macfarlane Moleli, the longtime morning news anchor on eNCA (DStv 403) who left the 24-hour TV news channel in 2013 is returning to e.tv and this time to the e.tv TV channel's primetime nightly news bulletin eNews Prime Time.

eNews Prime Time continues its reign as the most watched English news bulletin on television in South Africa.

Macfarlane Moleli who left eNCA at the end of May 2013 will now be seen on eNews Prime Time at 19:00, alternating on some evenings with that news bulletin's longtime anchor, Pat Pillai.

Macfarlane Moleli who also does radio news on Kaya FM will anchor eNews Prime Time on e.tv on Monday and Wednesday evenings.

"We are delighted to have someone of Macfarlane Moleli's caliber back on our team," says Phathiswa Magopeni, the head of terrestrial news services at e.tv.

Programming note: Inside Out on the eNews Channel will celebrate its 100th episode milestone looking back at past guests.

Inside Out, the high brow weekly interview show Saturdays at 09:30 on The eNews Channel (DStv 403) with host Pat Pillai will celebrate its 100th episode milestone this Saturday with a retrospective show looking back at past guests.

Saturday's episode that will look back with clips of ''the most inspiring guests'' over the past two years, will also include a never seen before interview with Hollywood star Morgan Freeman. Other personalities included in the retrospective include Patricia de Lille, Danny Jordaan, Tony Leon and Albie Sachs. Snippets from an interview with the renowned photographer, Peter Magubane will also form part of the 100th Inside Out episode.