DURBAN - The tabling of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Budget on Wednesday will coincide with the tabling of the Appropriation Bill, 2022, which, when passed, gives the legal basis for departments and public entities to spend their 2022/23 budgets.
KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube is expected to give additional allocations to some critical departments whose work impacts directly on the service delivery and social relief programmes. She said the budget charts the way forward, outlines government spending and will focus on economic recovery and jobs.
The budget speech is expected to be delivered at the Pietermaritzburg Royal Showgrounds.
Dube-Ncube has taken stock of where bottlenecks are and would take a cue from Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana.
Dube-Ncube pledged to accelerate efforts to work efficiently with all departments and will assist the government to firm up its efforts to curb overspending and under-spending.
She is expected to allocate the education and health departments the lion’s share of the budget. Her speech will be in the spotlight in terms of how much she would allocate to the Zulu Royal family because of the impending coronation of new Zulu King Misuzulu.
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