Anton Enus
Anton Enus is a Broadcast Journalist with over 25 years’ experience, Presenting for SBS World News since 1999
He began his career at the South African national broadcaster SABC as a radio news reporter. He moved on to become a parliamentary reporter, current affairs producer, TV news reporter and TV presenter, often anchoring the morning news show Good Morning South Africa.
Anton was part of the team that covered South Africa’s historic return to democracy in 1994 and also filed stories from Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Uganda, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. He spent seven years as a correspondent for CNN World Report, a global news program, where he won Best International Report for his story marking the 25th anniversary of Chris Barnard's pioneering heart transplant. He also won the SABC Bokmakierie Award for radio current affairs. Before leaving South Africa, Anton presented the major evening national news bulletin.
Anton served a term as president of TOGS, the LGBTI sports body in Johannesburg which negotiated South Africa’s admission to the Federation of Gay Games in 1993/94 following the fall of apartheid. As a result, South Africa had a participating team at the New York Gay Games of 1994 and every subsequent Gay Games (including Sydney 2002) – a development of which Anton and all who worked on the committee are very proud.
After travelling overland through south-eastern Africa and backpacking across India, Anton arrived in Sydney. In addition to reading the 6.30pm SBS World News bulletin, Anton hosts special SBS news events such as Federal Election specials and has hosted the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism several times.
In his spare time, Anton has run more than 40 marathons and is a dedicated reader. His favourite authors are Vikram Seth, JM Coetzee and Sebastian Faulks. Anton became an Australian citizen in July 2002.
Toward the end of 2016, Anton discussed his diagnosis with bowel cancer and urged others to get checked. After nearly two years away from work to undergo treatment, Anton returned to host the weekend SBS World News in September 2018. He is a Bowel Cancer Australia Ambassador.
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