The Citizen reports that Mzwanele Manyi’s Afro Worldview, formerly known as ANN7, had its last broadcast on Monday night.  Employees were told to not come back to work and were promised their July salaries.  

This came after satellite television company Multichoice declined to renew the channel’s contract on its DSTV platform after it came to an end.  The channel’s closure comes a few weeks after Manyi’s daily newspaper, Afro Voice (formerly known as The New Age) filed for liquidation.  The newspaper closed abruptly on 28 June, sending panic among its employees.  The newspaper was launched in 2010 and the channel came later in 2013.  Both were owned by the controversial Gupta family.  Manyi bought the channel and newspaper from the Gupta family last year.

• Read this report by Batandwa Malingo in full at The Citizen
• Read too, MultiChoice ends association with Manyi’s Afro Worldview, previously ANN7, at BusinessLive
• And also, Afro Worldview employees left in limbo as contract with MultiChoice comes to an end, at News24

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