ANN7 announced that broadcast veteran, Sindy Mabe, will be joining the channel as the new anchor of their flagship news programme, ANN7 Prime.

She will be replacing Peter van Onselen, who vacates the position after just under three months. Prior to that, Sebenzile Nkambule held down the fort, and prior to that was a whole slew of different anchors and formats for a prime time news bulletin that just does not seem to find any consistency.

Sindy now joins a long list of former eTV personalities that have anchored ANN7 Prime: Chantal Rutter-Dros, Juliet Newell and Peter van Onselen all have eTV listed on their CV's before ANN7. At eTV, Sindy anchored the channel's breakfast show, Sunrise

Though this is not the first time the channel has turned to an outsider to anchor its prime time bulletin after its anchor left, it does highlight that ANN7 has not yet been able to groom an anchor in house for the position, especially considering how much they pride themselves on being the place where young journalists can get a start in the in
Sindy Mabe anchors ANN7's (DStv 405) Prime bulletin, which airs weekdays between 7pm and 9pm from this coming Monday, 21 March 2016. [Strange date, you never want a major event on a tv show happening on a public holiday when viewership is traditionally low]