INTERVIEW: SAMRO has appealed to financial institutions to be lenient on artists amid Covid-19 restrictions on entertainment industry. We’ll hear from Nicholas Maweni, SAMRO Chairperson.

The South African Music Rights organisation "SAMRO is appealing to financial institutions and landlords to save local artists amid Covid 19. SAMRO says most of its members have two major income streams including royalties collected by SAMRO and also rely on income from events which are now all being cancelled. SAMRO says many artist will instinctively turn to them for financial bail outs. The financial pressure that it cannot bear. call upon all the broadcasters to go beyond their mandates and play more locally produced music which will help, in some way, to offset lost earnings from shows and events. We spoke to Samro's Chairperson Nicholas Maweni...

Events Planners in the country are some of the hardest affected by the gathering restrictions since the president's speech declaring Covid 19 a national disaster, many of them have received cancellations of their services after clients have had to cancel events, We spoke to a young entrepreneur and events planner in Johannesburg Lesego Dibodu...

The South African Airways (SAA) has cancelled a total of 162 flights. Of these, 38 are international and 124 are regional (destinations on the African continent) flights. This will be in place between 17th of March until 31st March 2020. We spoke to SAA spokesperson, Tlali Tlali...

The number of corona virus cases in South Africa have risen to 116.There's an increase of local transmissions. To date at least 14 people with no travel history have tested positive with the viral infection. To implement social distancing measures and help curb the spread of the virus within the country, social gatherings of more than 100 people have been prohibited. Large-scale celebrations of national days have also been cancelled. For more on how social gatherings such as upcoming funerals and weddings will be controlled, We spoke to Minister of Sports Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa…

In this podcast Bussai is talking to Mr. Patrick Mahlakoane fromDPSA. We find out about the right to employment for people living with disability.

The Glenzito Superdrive is designed to be fun, easy with a bit of va va voom.

Emfuleni municipality will pay Eskom R 50 million before end of business day today. MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and CoGTA Lebogang Maile, and Mayors from all municipalities in Gauteng, held bilateral meeting with Eskom's CEO André de Ruyter to discuss electricity challenges experienced by municipalities and debts owed to Eskom by municipalities among other issues. We spoke to Eskom's CEO André de Ruyter....

The Glenzito Superdrive is designed to be fun, easy with a bit of va va voom.

The Glenzito Superdrive is designed to be fun, easy with a bit of va va voom.