COSATU urges government to table a bold Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement [SOUND]

# COSATU is urging government to table a bold Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement signaling a progressive shift away from the devastating austerity budget cuts that have badly weakened public and municipal services. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana is expected to table the Medium-Term Budget in Parliament on Wednesday. COSATU’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks says the budget must respond to society’s dire faultlines of weak economic growth, a rising 42.9-percent unemployment rate, corruption and entrenched levels of poverty: