Popular SABC radio DJ Brian Ndevu has been taken off air after it emerged he is joining a rival station in the Eastern Cape.
Until last week Ndevu worked for trufm hosting the daily prime show called “Tru Breakfast” between 6am and 9am.
He joined the station in 2014 and resigned on December 1. He was serving his notice when barred from reporting to work last week and is due to work for Algoa FM from January 1.
Ndevu yesterday confirmed receiving a call from senior SABC management on Thursday saying he had been taken off air.
“The matter is with my legal team and I cannot comment further,” he said yesterday.
The Dispatch was reliably informed yesterday that trufm station manager Thobeka Buswana last Thursday wrote to Ndevu informing him his contract had been terminated with immediate effect.
Neither Buswana nor Ndevu’s programme manager Masixole Mdingane responded to Dispatch requests for comment sent through text messages and phonecalls on their mobile phones and work landlines.
According to a source close to the developments, Ndevu was “stunned” as he had served his notice of resignation two weeks prior to being barred from going on air.
“SABC bosses wrote to Brian after Algoa FM released a press statement last Wednesday announcing the exciting news he would be joining them in the New Year,” said a source who declined to be named for fear of reprisal.
Ndevu has also been barred from coming to work to collect his personal belongings although the station owes him a sum of more than R30000 in remittance.
The commercial radio station released a statement on its website stating the DJ would be making history in 2017 as the first East London-born presenter to present the station’s Drive Time show.
Ndevu will take over the mic from popular presenter Gordon Graham who, after 20 years, is leaving Algoa.
“Brian is one of the young lions who have returned to the Eastern Cape to make a difference after making a name for themselves in Johannesburg,” the Algoa FM statement read.
Ndevu will join the Algoa team in January and will start co-presenting with Graham soon after.
Graham leaves the station at the end of March.
The Dispatch called the trufm yesterday and was told the station manager and programme manager were both on leave. Ndevu has been replaced by Lungelo Nzama.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago also did not answer his phone and did not respond to a text message. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
DJ barred ahead of move to rival
Until last week Ndevu worked for trufm hosting the daily prime show called “Tru Breakfast” between 6am and 9am.
He joined the station in 2014 and resigned on December 1. He was serving his notice when barred from reporting to work last week and is due to work for Algoa FM from January 1.
Ndevu yesterday confirmed receiving a call from senior SABC management on Thursday saying he had been taken off air.
“The matter is with my legal team and I cannot comment further,” he said yesterday.
The Dispatch was reliably informed yesterday that trufm station manager Thobeka Buswana last Thursday wrote to Ndevu informing him his contract had been terminated with immediate effect.
Neither Buswana nor Ndevu’s programme manager Masixole Mdingane responded to Dispatch requests for comment sent through text messages and phonecalls on their mobile phones and work landlines.
According to a source close to the developments, Ndevu was “stunned” as he had served his notice of resignation two weeks prior to being barred from going on air.
“SABC bosses wrote to Brian after Algoa FM released a press statement last Wednesday announcing the exciting news he would be joining them in the New Year,” said a source who declined to be named for fear of reprisal.
Ndevu has also been barred from coming to work to collect his personal belongings although the station owes him a sum of more than R30000 in remittance.
The commercial radio station released a statement on its website stating the DJ would be making history in 2017 as the first East London-born presenter to present the station’s Drive Time show.
Ndevu will take over the mic from popular presenter Gordon Graham who, after 20 years, is leaving Algoa.
“Brian is one of the young lions who have returned to the Eastern Cape to make a difference after making a name for themselves in Johannesburg,” the Algoa FM statement read.
Ndevu will join the Algoa team in January and will start co-presenting with Graham soon after.
Graham leaves the station at the end of March.
The Dispatch called the trufm yesterday and was told the station manager and programme manager were both on leave. Ndevu has been replaced by Lungelo Nzama.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago also did not answer his phone and did not respond to a text message. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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