Ramaphosa backs minister Godongwana amid calls for his removal [SOUND]

# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the now resolved budget impasse is not a cause for Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to be removed. There have been calls for the minister to be fired over the budget impasse that will now see him tabling the budget for the third time on May 21st, an unprecedented move since 1994. Speaking on the sidelines of Cosatu’s Workers Day commemoration in Mpumalanga on Thursday, Ramaphosa says the silver lining in the impasse was a more transparent budget process: