eNCA, also known as eNews Channel Africa, is a 24-hour television news broadcaster owned by e.tv that focuses on African stories and events.
[2] eNCA's website launched in May 2013 and passed half a million unique users in September of that year.
The channel officially launched in the region when it was added to Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 20 August 2012, and subsequently closed down on 31 October 2014.
[citation needed] In 2014, a documentary was released that showed how eNCA reported on Nelson Mandela's passing.
In February 2021, eNCA reporter Lindsay Dentlinger was accused of being racist after she forced black political leaders of the UDM and IFP to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 but allowed their white counterparts of the Democratic Alliance and the pro-Afrikaner Freedom Front Plus to be interviewed without wearing masks.
[9][10] eNCA has been accused of spreading right-wing propaganda and fake news by the African National Congress and EFF leader Julius Malema.