Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana was spared from having to present a bleak budget in February thanks to a tax windfall from the surge in commodity prices (Dispatches 21/2/22 Calls on Finance Minister Godongwana to be more radical in this week's budget)...

Enoch holds the budgetary line In his first mid-term budget Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana calmed market nerves by holding firm on government spending cuts to reduce national debt and he linked social spending to investment and job creation...

The planned tax hike caused an outcry from business leaders and trade unions and was quickly shot down by new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwanar...

New Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is a former head of the ANC's economics committee...

According to insiders Ramaphosa was supported by some key executive heavyweights including Mondli Gungubele a former deputy finance minister and Enoch Godongwana who heads the ANC's economic transformation committee...

Africa Confidential understands that the main backers of the plan are Finance Minister Mboweni and Enoch Godongwana head of the ANC's Economic Transformation Committee and chair of the Development Bank of Southern Africa...

Supporting Ramaphosa's reforms are: Gordhan and Mboweni; ANC economic policy head Enoch Godongwana; Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago; and former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela...

Another key Ramaphosa ally is Enoch Godongwana former head of the ANC's economic transformation committee who is poised to take a ministerial post under Ramaphosa...