South Africa loses the BBC Studios Africa boss, Joel Churcher, after 5 years; no plan for a new on-the-ground exec as part of broader BBC Studios CEMA region 'manage from afar' shake-up.

South Africa is losing the accomplished and well-liked BBC Studios Africa boss, Joel Churcher, who is returning to the United Kingdom after half a decade in Johannesburg, with the change coming as part of a broader top executive reorganisation at BBC Studios for the region that South Africa and Africa forms part of.

It doesn't appear as if BBC Studios top brass in London have plans to appoint