This brings to the end an over 15 year journey with eNews for Barnes, where he spent most of the time anchoring News Day.
"After 23 years in broadcasting, I leave South Africa with my partner to start a new life in my favourite corner of the world, south-east Asia. I'll be putting the years of experience I've gained in training and development to launch my own business in Cambodia. While Brandon and I shall miss this country, we're excited that the time has come to spread our wings."
Andrew Barnes has anchored eNews' News Day since its inception when it was a thirty minute news bulletin at 1pm on etv, which replaced etv's prior 1pm news bulletin, a thirty minute international news roundup from Reuters (Remember those days?).
In 2008 Barnes' News Day was expanded to three hours with the launch of the then eNews Channel and was paired up with Robyn Smith (three hours is a long time to be anchoring the news none stop), who ended her tenure at the group this past Monday.
Over the years (well at least since 2008), Andrew has had various co-anchors join him at News Day once Robyn Smith left that position. They were Sherezade Safla, Bhavna Singh and currently, Michelle Craig. Craig will continue to anchor the bulletin solo for the foreseeable future until a permanent co-anchor is announced, which will not be soon considering Cathy Mohlahlana has been waiting quite long already for a co-anchor to join her for Mid Morning News.
Barnes has had the opportunity to report from around the world during his time at eNews/eNCA, including reporting from Washington, D.C. for the historic 2008 election there and the royal wedding in London, among others.
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