We use this hour now to reflect on yesterday's Medium-Term Budget through the eyes of trade unions. At the rate the cost of living is rising on a daily basis, one wonders if there's really anything that we as workers are benefitting from it. One of the issues also on the table was talk of making the R370-a-month social grant permanent or replacing it with a Basic Income Grant. For some time now, it has repeated its previous saying that a permanent grant must be supported by higher revenue sources. Is our social grant system sustainable seeing how many people are being retrenched?

Guest: Joseph Mathunjwa - President of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, AMCU

Guest: Ashley Benjamin, FEDUSA Deputy General Secretary

Guest: Mameti Sebei - President of GIWUSA

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi -General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions