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INTERVIEW: President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to calm fears about the economic impact of the pending national lockdown saying those whose livelihoods will be impacted by the lockdown will be assisted through a series of measures including the use of a temporary Employee Relief Scheme. The lockdown will start at midnight on Thursday and will remain in effect until April 16.

Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi says workers can apply for leave using the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. Nxesi says they are negotiating for special leave conditions for those who fall ill during work......

Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane says tourists who entered the country since the 09th of March have been place under quarantine for 14 days...

Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza says the department has set aside 1.2 billion to address the effects of the corona virus, post the pandemic. Didiza says the country has sufficient food supply- hence there is no need to panic buy.....

Trade and Industry minister, Ebrahim Patel has highlighted various financial relief plans to assist South African citizens and business owners during this time. Patel says the Competition Commission is investigating eleven companies for allegedly hiking the prices of products - such as face masks, gloves and hand sanitizes - amid the corona virus outbreak. Patel says those who take advantage of th...

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says South Africa is learning from countries such as China in dealing with the virus. He also says many people may be tempted to travel home to rural areas in the next 24 hours before the lock-down, but he is confident that many South Africans will adhere to the lock-down regulations....

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced that the number of corona virus cases in South Africa has risen to 554. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a three week national lock-down, starting at midnight on Thursday, to help stem the spread of the corona virus. There are over 370-thousand confirmed Covid 19 cases across the globe - with over 16-thousand deaths linked to the virus. Addressing...

AVIATION UPDATE: We’re joined on the line by aviation expert Phuthego Mojapele to give us an update on the impact of the corona virus on the aviation industry.

INTERVIEW: The Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of SA is feeling aggrieved by cancellation of Macufe Cultural festival. The organisation says they find it reckless for the Free State to take money from the arts and redirect it to drilling of boreholes and buying sanitisers. We’ll speak to the federation and the Free State Government.

As churches scale down services due to the corona virus, some are taking advantage of technology to reach their members. Government has issued guidelines prohibiting public gatherings of more than 100 people at a time. Tshepo Phagane visited Soweto to check how churches are dealing with the new regulations, what measures they've put in place to deal with the virus, and how they ensure they keep wo...

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 t...

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. Aft...

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 fe...

• 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 fina...

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 na...

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...

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.