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South Africa's finance minister Malusi Gigaba has outlined his country's spending plans. Gina Schoeman is an economist at Citibank in Johannesburg, and assesses the proposals. And we get reaction from Yunus Carrim of the ruling ANC, who is chairman of the parliament's finance standing committee, and Alf Lees, deputy finance spokesman for the opposition Democratic Alliance party. Also in the programme, following a recommendation by the US Commerce Department to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium, Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing explains why he supports the idea, and our regular economic commentator Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute tells us why he is opposed. Our reporter in Senegal takes a trip with a motorbike radio traffic reporter on the streets of Dakar. Plus there are protests in Italy at Brazilian firm Embraco's intention to move domestic appliance production from Turin to a site in Slovakia. Enrico Colombatto is professor of economics at Turin University, and brings us the background to the dispute.

(Picture: Malusi Gigaba delivers South Africa's budget. Picture credit: Getty Images.)