Dineo Ranaka has been announced as one of the on-air personalities of Metro FM, a year after her departure from Kaya FM.
Ranaka will host the station’s Top 30 chart show from Saturday morning to midday.
She joined Kaya in 2022 from Metro FM. About a year into her role at the Gauteng station, things changed for the media personality.
In now-deleted Instagram posts from May 2023, Ranaka wrote that she wasn’t well and that she was contemplating suicide.
Following her breakdown, Ranaka spent some months away from her show, which led to the current host of Kaya’s breakfast show, Sizwe Dhlomo, standing in for her. The station released a statement confirming its support for Ranaka.
After an extended period away from her show, she and the station began negotiating their eventual separation.
In the midst of all of this, the broadcaster confirmed that she had been diagnosed with Severe Chronic Depression following a public meltdown.
Kaya eventually dismissed her around July 2023, something she celebrated.