The explosive television interview by André de Ruyter outgoing chief executive of ailing electricity utility Eskom on 21 February which upstaged Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's budget on the following day has triggered a sharper focus on the 'four criminal cartels' he accused of wrecking the power company and their links to senior figures in the ruling African National Congress...

It includes Gwede Mantashe Minister of Minerals and Energy and ANC chairman and one of the most powerful members of Ramaphosa's cabinet who is also seen as the man who delivered the President's second term; Mondli Gungubele Minister in the Presidency; and Enoch Godongwana Finance Minister...

Details of these are due to be announced by finance minister Enoch Godongwana in his budget on 22 February...

That includes Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana...

Pandor Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe Defence Minister Thandi Modise Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan are expected to accompany the President on the state visit...

Debt swapOn the same day as the arrest of Koko and his colleagues finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his medium-term budget in which he disclosed that the state was in the process of taking over between a third and two-thirds of Eskom's ballooning R400bn debt (AC Vol 63 No 21 Transport dispute puts brake on economy)...

Senior bankers expect Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana who is due to announce a medium-term budget policy statement on 26 October say they expect government spending plans to be based on 3% increases in public sector pay compared to current year-on-year inflation rates of about 8%...

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...