Nzinga Qunta has confirmed via Twitter that she is now the permanent anchor of ANN7's ANN7 Prime. The tweet can be seen below:
Yes :) "@ThembiMrototo: Are you there permanently now? RT @NzingaQ: So exciting anchoring Prime :)"
— Nzinga Qunta (@NzingaQ) February 16, 2015
She has been anchoring the show for two weeks now, currently her third, which included doing the channel's State of the Nation Address Coverage last Thursday.Nzinga has been with ANN7 since the start of the channel and has previously been the anchor of the weekend edition of the show.
There is currently no word yet on what now happens to Juliet Newell who joined the channel in December and was even announced as the anchor of ANN7 Prime, replacing Chantal Rutter Dros who departed in December, but then lost that position barely a month later. At the moment, she does anchor a mere 30 minutes of news at 2pm on the channel, but that cannot last too long.
Nzinga, who is studying this year while being a Monday to Friday anchor at ANN7, now becomes the youngest anchor in South African prime time news. She is also the only anchor in prime time that is NOT a journalist, as she pointed out a while ago on Twitter, but based on her on screen presentation, one would not even notice.
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