Nzinga Qunta announced this on her Twitter timeline earlier today (22 June 2015).
Qunta had been with ANN7 since the channel's start, initially as one of the rotating young anchors (most of whom were models, but there were great ones like Qunta among them) the channel hired. Within a few months, she was named the anchor of ANN7's Weekend Prime anchor. During the 2014 Election cycle, Qunta anchored the daily 2 hour programme, SA Decides, and also anchored the 10am block on election day. After this, she remained the channel's late afternoon block before being promoted to ANN7 Prime anchor in January of this year, filling the void left by Chantal Rutter Dros.
In addition to being ANN7's Prime anchor, the youngest prime time anchor on South African tv, Qunta has also been a full time student at Wits University this year.
Both of these, in my opinion, helped Qunta to do something better than most other anchors: connect organically with social media users.
As anchor of ANN7 Prime, Qunta has had the opportunity to anchor the channel's coverage of major events like this year's State of the Nation Address.
Her last night on air was June 19th last week.
[I won't lie, I initially wasn't the biggest fan of Nzinga's style, but then she started growing on me and it has been amazing just to see her grow in prime time. Plus she has my respect for being able to anchor a prime time news bulletin and be a full time student at the same time. Really going to miss her on screen]
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