Finance MEC tables âbleakâ budget By Thami Magubane Share Durban - INVESTMENTS in infrastructure have been prioritised as the government seeks to trigger economic revival and create much-needed job opportunities in KwaZulu-Natal. MEC for Finance Nomusa Dube-Ncube tabled her budget for the 2021/22 financial year during a virtual sitting of the legislature on Tuesday. The budget laid bare the bleak economic realities facing the country, and revealed yet another round of budget cuts across all departments, leaving the provincial government feeling that they have cut all the way to the bone. Dube-Ncube said despite the need for budget cuts, they had tried to avoid reducing the budget for infrastructure, adding that President Cyril Ramaphosa had identified infrastructure âas one of the pillars the countryâs economic revival will be based on.â