SABC NEWS
-Peter Ndoro and Leanne Manas anchored Morning Live from the IEC Results Center in Pretoria. All three hours of Morning Live were simulcast on SABC2 instead of just the first 2. At 8:21am, Morning Live interviewed opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, live from the station where he was voting.
-At 9am, Eben Jansen and Desiree Chauke took over coverage from Pretoria with Elvis Preslin in studio.
-Siphephile Kunene is in Nkomazi
-Paballo Lephaka is in Melville
-Bongi Mogale is reporting from throughout Johannesburg
-Arbra Barbier is in Cape Town
-At 9:30am, SABC News broadcast Desmond Tutu voting live
-At 1pm, the SABC News feed started simulcasting during the lunch time slot on SABC3, meaning that viewers on SABC 2 and SABC3 were watching the same thing. Natasha Thorp and Devan Murugan
At 3pm, Alicia Jali took over the anchoring duties solo with Samm Marshall on the floor in the results center.
-Blain Herman and Francis Herd anchored prime time from 6pm. Why them you ask? Well this block of programming will be featuring the least on free tv (where most viewers are) as SABC2 opt for its regular prime time schedule instead of simulcasting SABC News.
eNCA
-eTV's regular breakfast how, Sunrise, was preempted this morning for eNCA's Morning News Today, which was anchored by Uveka Rangappa from the main eNCA studio (for some reason the channel always keeps her at eNCA's headquarters instead of sending her to Pretoria). eNCA's Zikhona Tshona is in Vuwani.
-At 8:30, eNCA's Xoli Mngambi interviewed ANC's Nelson Mandela Metropol candidate, Danny Jordaan, just after he voted. Jordaan expressed that he expects to win with 51% of the votes.
-Soon after 08:30, eNCA spoke to chief opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane just after he voted.
-At 9am, the simulcast on eTV ended.
-Lirandzu Themba is in Atteridgeville.
-Thulasizwe Simelane is at the IEC Results Center.
-Bongiwe Khumalo is in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
-Malungelo Booi is in Mthatha
-Uveka was joined by Gareth Edwards for the later morning hours.
-After 6 hours on air, Uveka handed over to Cathy Mohlahlana and Joanne Josephs for the next few hours. (This is the first time the two have been conanchoring since Joanne was moved to Afternoon News)
-eNCA's rolling coverage continues into the 1pm News Day slot on eTV
-The channel has way too many taped stories
-In prime time, Jeremy Maggs and Siki Mgabadeli anchored from the channels studio. Again, nothing major from the results center.
At just after 10pm, DA leader, Mmusi Maimane stopped at eNCA's booth at the IEC Center. The interview with Iman Rappetti was quite in depth. Maimane stated that he was quietly optimistic about the results.
-Iman has Jody Jacobs with he through the night to do the number crunching.
ANN7
-Abigail Visagie and sports anchor, Peter Stemmet, anchored ANN7's morning hours from the channel's studio in Midrand. The channel is also allowing viewers to share their voting pictures with the channel via Whatsapp.
-At 08:36, ANN7 spoke to ABC Mayoral candidate for Tshwane, Thoko Didize.
-ANN7's Buntu Williams repoted live throughout the morning from the IEC Results Center.
-Peter van Onselen and Chante Jantjies took over coverage from the studio at 9am.
-Kgothatso Phatladira is in Tshwane
-Karabo Yibe is in Ekurhuleni
-Michael Appel reported live from different regions in and around Johannesburg
-Peter Stemmet and Abigail Visagie returned to the air for the lunchtime shift.
-If you want to get on the ground elections coverage, ANN7 is the best, BY FAR. They just keep speaking to regular voters while the other channels prefer in studio talk
-At 4pm, Audrey Chimwanda joins Peter van Onselen as co anchor. Audrey has of course been anchoring the channel's electoral buildup programme, SA Decides. This is also her election day debut.
-In prime time, Sindy Mabe and sports editor, Edwin Kgaswe anchored from the Results Center, hosting a large panel. The channel's results graphics have been rolled out already, even though the first results are expected from 9pm.
-Viewers are flooding online too with ANN7, who gives its feed away free online, has seen its website overloaded multiple times in prime time.
-At 21:25, ANN7 cut away from Sindy Mabe mid sentence to go toa reporter getting opposition leader Mmusi Maimane's first reaction to the first result in this election, a DA victory in the Great Kai ward in the Eastern Cape.
CORRECTION: Chante Jantjies was scheduled to co anchor with Peter van Onselen but tweeted that she wasn not going to be on air due to illness. As a journalist that must be the absolute worst knowing you missing out on an election.
-After speaking to eNCA in the 10pm hour, Mmusi Maimane stopped by ANN7's studio at the Results Center. The interview was rather spicy with voices raised between Maimane and Sindy Mabe. Maimane stated that he will not enter into a coalition anywhere with a party that is corrupt.
-One thing I have to fault ANN7 on is the choice of Nandi Ntoni as the prime time relief anchor that carries things for a few minutes to allow the regulars a break. She is not terrible (bad, maybe), but he does not provide any valuable insight. She displays something that I noticed in Abigail Visagie earlier (though Visagie was much better than her) in that the channel's younger anchors lack skills to carry the broadcast without a script.
President
At 10am, all news channels crossed over live to Nkandla where President Zuma and his family voted. However, the President decided to stand in line with the regular citizens and all the channels decided to only cut back to him just after 10:30am when he entered the voting station. A few minutes after that, the channels all carried an impromptu informal QnA with the President.
CNBC Africa has been on air these last few hours providing what is basically a live panel discussing the elections from their studio. Very little on the ground reporting.
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