Gladys Sithole Leaves ANN7, Becomes Hot 91.9fm's Head of News

Gladys Sithole has this past week announced that she was leaving ANN7.

Announcing her departure, Sithole tweeted, "What is the meaning of life if one doesn't explore the part of it that brings about challenges, experience and great responsibility? With that said, it is with great sadness that I inform all my friends and fans that this is my last week at @ANN7tv #ANN7 💞 Life has presented me with an opportunity which I at 1st didn't think I was worthy of, but have since gotten used to the idea #God"

Sithole had been with ANN7 since inception, when she was one of the many now infamous models who were given the opportunity to tryout for a permanent position at the channel. Prior to joining ANN7, Gladys was seen on television as one of the 'vixens' Vuzu's now long cancelled show titled Vixens.

She was one of very few of the models that tried out with ANN7 that actually got appointed. Others include now former ANN7 Prime anchor, Nzinga Qunta, and current Vuka Africa anchor, Abigail Visagie.

Gladys has anchored different slots for the channel, including stints as Weekend Prime anchor (a position everyone seems to hold prior to going on to greater things), before moving to weekday afternoons and then to anchoring the continental bulletin, Africa Tonight, where she truly shone (shined? Shown?). As anchor of Africa Tonight, Sithole also acted as the channel's main reporter for the AU Summit held in Johannesburg earlier this year, excellently covering the drama surrounding Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir.

She was also always the the channel's main fill in anchor for ANN7 Prime, though for some reason whenever the main anchor of the bulletin left, Sithole was never promoted to that position.

Sithole joined Hot 91.9fm since the Johannesburg-based community radio station started in November last year. There, under the leadership of the excellent Marc Chase, she read the midday news report and earlier this year won big at the 2015 MTN Radio Awards.

Now she is being promoted to the radio station's head of news. Yip. From model to head of news. Hard work certainly pays off. This is why I no longer just dismiss it when ANN7 decides to bring in another model. They might be another Gladys Sithole.

Gladys held a farewell dinner for herself on Friday night (as everyone does when they leave ANN7), which was attended by the likes of senior reporter, Kalden Ongmu, 'GameOn!' presenter, Mahreen Chenia, and current ANN7 Prime anchor, Sebenzile Nkambule.


Gladys Sithole's last day with ANN7 was Thursday October 8th.