JOHANNESBURG - Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is set to table budget 3.0 tomorrow.
However, President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t be in the country for it.
WATCH | All eyes on Washington ahead of Ramaphosa-Trump meeting
He is in the United States on a state visit, and not everyone’s impressed.
The EFF has labelled the trip ill-timed and tone-deaf, questioning the President’s priorities as the country faces a fiscal crunch.
Wouter Wessels from the Freedom Front Plus, ActionSA's Alan Beesley and MK Party MP Brian Molefe unpacked political and economic implications of this timing.