SAMRO worried about SA artists amid Covid 19

SAfm — 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...