Mbali Nkosi Goes From ANN7 Anchor to All Access Mzansi Presenter

The now former ANN7 anchor, Mbali Nkosi, has this past week been announced as one of All Accesss Mzansi's new presenters.

Previously, Nkosi was seen 'anchoring' Weekend Prime on ANN7, along with additional slots here and there filling in for other anchors. She left her gig at ANN7 to pursue things more in line with the fame she was chasing when she entered Big Brother Mzansi, on Mzansi Magic, earlier this year where she made it all the way to the finsl, but finished third.

However, she must have made an impression with the team at Mzansi Magic as she will now be a co presenter of the third version of All Access Mzansi, along with Nomzamo Mbatha (of Isibaya fame) and Anga Makubalo.

All Access Mzansi started life as simply All Access, MNet's (DStv 101) attempt at prime time glamour news. At launch, it was seen exclusively seen on MNet and was based in what was an awesome studio at MNet in the same studio that now houses the massive Superspot set. However, the
2010 SAFTA Award winning show has seen many tweaks over the years, including dropping the studio and becoming more like Top Billing with presenting done from some fancy location, changing and dropping of presenters, and even changing channels from MNet to Mzansi Magic, adjusting to a format targeting what the channel called a "black urban audience" along with adding "Mzansi" to its name. The show has been cancelled before, twice, and is now back for a third time.

ANN7 Tweaks ANN7 Prime, Drops Candy Harris as Co Anchor

Just weeks after the relaunch of ANN7 Prime, the channel has removed Candy Harris as the show's co anchor, opting to go solely with Sebenzile Nkambule instead.

When it launched with two hosts, both female, I remarked that the show seemed very messy having two moderators of the show's many debtates and two anchors speaking to the phone-in guests, which obviously led to incindents when the two spoke over each other.

Now Candy Harris has been, ironically, shifted to Sebenzile's old slot of mid morning news where she anchors solo and occasionally with a trainee anchor.