Anand Naidoo is a South African - American anchor and correspondent for CCTV America based in Washington, DC. He currently hosts CCTV America's daily political talk show, The Heat. He joined CCTV America in July 12 after six years as an anchor for Al Jazeera English, and ten years as CNN International's World News anchor prior. Before joining CNN in 1997, Anand was the evening news anchor for the South African Broadcasting Corp. in Johannesburg. He began his broadcast career in Belgium, where he worked as a field producer for Belgian television as well as a producer and anchor for the Belgian Radio World Service. Anand has also worked as a news editor on Radio 702, a Johannesburg independent radio station and a presenter on the South African cable station, M-Net. He began his career as a newspaper journalist on the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. Among the major stories Anand has covered during his career was the release of Nelson Mandela and the first all-race elections in South Africa in 1994.