When the Weather Anhor Joins the Regular Anchor

So today I was watching The SABC News Channel (I finally discovered that that is the channel's official name) and I saw something I haven't seen on South African news before: the weather anchor joining the news anchor to discuss the weather.

Though this may be common practice on international channels like CNN, but not on South African news.

In the case on eNCA, their weather department is located in Cape Town while the actual studio from where the anchor does the anchoring is in Johannesburg. The only time the weather anchor would actually talk about the weather outside of the weather report would be in a recorded news report about weather.

On ANN7, in the other case, the channel's only weather girl when the channel started, Suri Smit, is now doing some weekend magazine show on the channel (which has absolutely nothing to do with weather, if you wondering), meaning that the 24 hour news channel has no on air weather personality at all.

The SABC News Channel is the only local news channel that has the weather anchor doing the weather report live and, in the case of English broadcasts, in the same studio with the news anchor, which is why an informative sit down interview like today's could take place.