TV and radio anchor Aldrin Sampear is changing gears. The accomplished broadcast journalist is leaving Power FM to join SABC news and talk radio station SAfm. He will take over the afternoon drive talk show Beyond The Headline which airs weekdays between 3 PM-6 PM. He assumes starts on 4 January 2021.
With a career in broadcasting that spans over a decade, Sampear started his career on Kasie FM in 2008. He has since worked for various newsrooms including Jozi FM, YFM, and 702. He has also worked for Jacaranda FM. Having covered the Marikana Massacre as a field reporter from inception, one of the many stories he is passionate about, he parallelly covered and learned the complex world of politics.
He earned his stripes and went on to join SABC TV as a Senior Political Journalist in 2014 and afterward moved to eNCA as the same position in 2017, which eventually saw him hosting his first political TV show; Polit Bureau. No stranger to talk radio, he currently hosts the Power Talk on Power FM. He is also the host of the SABC TV current affairs show, Unfiltered which airs Mondays on SABC 3, and African Perspective which airs on Wednesdays evenings.
We are excited to welcome Mr. Aldrin Sampear to the SAfm family and wish him well in his new role at SAFM. Mr. Sampear brings a wealth of knowledge to the show and his appointment aims to ensure that we remain relevant and ultimately deliver more on our mandate to grow the station’s listenership
Ms. Kina Nhlengethwa ,SAfm’s Acting Station Manager
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