Anton Enus will deliver his final SBS World News bulletin on Friday September 11. The South African born Australian news presenter will retire after 27 years with SBS and an additional 15 working for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. There, across his time in radio and television, he was on hand to cover landmark events including that country’s return to democracy in 1994.
Anton said:
“I will miss that flashing red light in the studio that says ‘ON AIR’, the immediacy of crossing to a reporter in the middle of a hurricane, the importance of being part of a team telling the stories of people that sometimes get ignored. I don’t think it’s too grand to say those things, the nuts-and-bolts of public broadcasting, shore up the kind of society we think of when we evoke modern Australia.
“It seems extraordinary that the time has passed so quickly. It feels like just the other day that I walked into the newsroom for the first time, a newly arrived migrant from South Africa, looking for a job – any job. I was given a professional home and embraced by this family of broadcasters in a way that for me epitomised what multicultural Australia is all about. We are many but we’re also one. I will enjoy following SBS World News from afar.”