So in the early hours of today the DA and Agang-SA announced that thy will be merging. This news was of course breaking news across the local news channels, except SABC News Cahnnel, of course.
I watched the 11:30 bulletin on eNCA, which was quite neutral in tone anchored by JoAnne Josephs and Gareth Edwards (both quit talented and supposed to have anchored this slot together for quite a few months now but hasn't been the case due to them being the go-to fill in anchors on other slots, meaning one usually anchors solo). They only covered it for a few minutes though before playing an extended report by Cathy Mohlanhlana took them to the top of the hour, followed by weather.
On News Day, Andrew Barnes is co-anchoring from outside the Townhouse where the announcement was made, providing more perspective.
On ANN7 though, I was quit shocked to see exactly how critical in tone Senior Political Correspondent Hajra Omarjee was of this merger, ridiculing it in anyway she could and mentioning things like this means Mamphela cannot stan by her word, etc. which is quite silly as politicians are known to change their views more drastically.
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