Cast your mind back to former finance minister Trevor Manuel on any Budget Day throughout the 2000s.
The smiling minister would walk to a midmorning press conference accompanied by his deputy, Jabu Moleketi, SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Pravin Gordhan, the National Treasury director-general and a few of his top officials.
After the press conference the team would walk to the National Assembly chamber with the minister to present his budget.