Is Ayanda Bandla the new permanent Sunrise co-presenter on e.tv in the mornings or a temporary stand-in?

Is Ayanda Bandla the new permanent Sunrise co-presenter next to Sindy Mabe on e.tv or merely a temporary stand-in until the morning show can find a new co-host?

e.tv hasn't said a word about Sunrise's new co-host appointment or Ayanda Bandla although viewers are seeing the former reality TV star now co-anchoring the morning show since Sunrise returned after its Christmas and New Year's hiatus.

TV with Thinus broke the news in December that Sunrise co-host Stacey Holland had suddenly resigned without any public explanation.

It left Sunrise producers scrambling to try and find a replacement on short notice at the end of the year, urgently looking for a suitable replacement with not much time before 2012 ran out.

Now Ayanda Bandla is standing next to morning show veteran Sindy Mabe but e.tv hasn't said anything since Ayanda Bandla popped up when Sunrise resumed in 2013.

Ayanda Bandla is best known as a reality television personality, she was one of the contestants on SABC1's reality competition One Day Leader in 2011.

UPDATE 18:00 - e.tv tells me that Ayanda Bandla is a temporary, substitute replacement for Stacey Holland while Sunrise is finalising the search for a new permanent presenter.

BREAKING. Stacey Holland resigns; leaving e.tv's morning breakfast show Sunrise as the production scrambles to find a new co-anchor replacement.

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I can reveal that Stacey Holland is leaving her perch as the co-anchor of e.tv's weekday morning breakfast show Sunrise after a year and a half.

Stacey Holland jettisoning the morning show marks the second high profile departure from a live South African morning show after Liezel van der Westhuizen's sudden departure from SABC3's live weekday morning show Expresso just a month ago.

Stacey Holland who joined e.tv in 2009, took on co-hosting duties on Sunrise in July 2011 alongside Sindy Mabe after she had been working at the broadcaster mostly covering sport.

I'm told that Stacey Holland's last day appearing on-air for Sunrise will be this Friday, 14 December and that she handed in her resignation on 3 December.

The e.tv production is now urgently looking for a new replacement Sunrise co-anchor and someone who has at least three years broadcasting experience, with applications closing on Friday.

"We can confirm that Stacey Holland has resigned from her position as Sunrise anchor," Monde Twala, e.tv's channel head tells me. "Stacey has worked for Sunrise for the past four years. We wish her well in all her future endeavours."