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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.

Transparency International has published its latest Corruption Perceptions Index - assessing the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 180 countries. While countries like Senegal have climbed up this year's rankings, Australia's score has fallen. Maggie Murphy, Senior Global Advocacy Manager at Transparency International, explains why.

The US Commerce Department has recommended imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium, Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing supports the idea, and our regular economic commentator Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute is opposed. Our reporter in Senegal takes a trip with a motorbike radio traffic reporter on the streets of Dakar.

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