NGO’s are keeping a keen eye on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana this afternoon as he delivers his maiden Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement. Unions are calling on him to abandon government's current fiscal policy of severe budget cuts in social spending. On the other hand Government is proposing a family grant to replace the Covid Social Relief of Distress grant. Economists are asking where the money will come from and whether these grants are sustainable. For a perspective on this, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Nathan Tylor – Research Associate at the Institute for Economic Justice