Her last day at the channel was today, December 13th, covering the EFF's first Elective Conference from where she reported throughout the day.
She joined ANN7 last year from eNCA, playing a great roll in many of the new channel's coverage of major events, including the passing of former president Nelson Mandela and anchored the channel's coverage of the State of the Nation Address earlier this year, which was quickly followed by an interview with President Zuma.
Around election time,she started anchoring a new political show, Political Edge, which aired on Sundays and often featured various prominent politicians. The show went off the air on November 24th, with Omarjee and others involved describing it as a "season finale" and that they will be back in the new year, which now will now obviously not happen. After the final aired, she tweeted: "YOU made
The first signs of cracks in her relationship with ANN7 appeared during the controversial exit of Asanda Magaqa from the channel, after Asanda was "escorted" from the news organisation's premises following disciplinary action. Hajra, who represented Asanda at those hearings tweeted the following after Asanda was escorted from the premises: "I feel nauseous, I have a throbbing headache .... I'm going home."
She guest hosted a slot on Johannesburg's newsy radio station, PowerFM, earlier this month. Another person that guest hosted a slot on that station is eNCA's Iman Rapetti, who now anchors a permanent slot on the channel.
ANN7 now has more slots to fill in the new year: Prime time anchor, business anchor and now senior politcal correspondent and host of Political Edge, and all this excludes the countless backstage departures at the channel.
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