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….

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…

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....

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula says safety measures have been greatly intensified at airlines.

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi says the closure of some of the ports of entry in the country will have no impact on commerce. He says controls are being placed on human movement and not goods entry. He also says the Beitbridge border post will remain open because it is the only border to Zimbabwe and is the gateway for South Africa to the rest of the continent.

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the declaration of a National State of Disaster due to COVID 19 will have huge implications for the Independent Electoral System. Dlamini-Zuma says the way which we are currently dealing with elections needs to change.

Minister of Trade and Industry, Ebrahim Patel says they are meeting with business and labour later today to chart a way forward....