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A group of South Africans who are stranded in Morocco following the global outbreak of Covid-19 and the subsequent banning of all international flights to and from Morocco last week are appealing for assistance from the South African Government. Unlike other countries who gave tourists more time to make alternative arrangements, the complete airspace closure in Morocco was immediate. We spoke to the Spokesperson of the group in Morocco, James De Wet and Spokesperson of the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lunga Ngqengelele

MTN South Africa has announced that it will reduce the tariffs of its monthly data bundles of 1GB and below by between 25-50 per cent while the 1GB monthly bundle will decrease by 33 per cent to R99 with effect from next month. MTN made the announcement at a briefing held at its headquarters in Johannesburg, joined by minister of communications and digital technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams. After two year of investigation, the Competition Commission released its data services market inquiry report in December last year. The report said MTN and Vodacom had to independently reach an agreement with the regulator on substantially reducing data prices within two months of the release of the report.We spoke to MTN SA's Executive for Corporate Affairs, Jacqui O'Sullivan….

ARTS INTERVIEW: The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts is hosting the 23rd Time of the Writer International Festival Virtual Edition from today until to 25 March 2020.
The physical edition of the festival, that was due to start on 16 March, had to be cancelled on the morning of opening night in view of the current corona pandemic.
The team and the writers decided to take the festival to a digital space. We’re joined on the line by Marlayn Ntsele, Social Manager for Time of the Writer Festival.

• INTERVIEW: We now hear from the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA, the country’s largest nursing union about the corona virus and the preparedness of their members. We speak to Cassim Lekgoathi, DENOSA General Secretary.

INTERVIEW: We now find out more about a social enterprise that transforms underutilised spaces in the city into urban farms.
23 year old Josephine Katumba says she aims to reconnect people with their food and the environment through urban agriculture.
The urban agriculture consultancy officially launched in September last year.

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…