KWAZULU-Natal’s MEC for transport S’bu Ndebele is expected to announce an integrated transport plan and an initiative to deliver load-bearing bicycles to rural women when he makes his department’s budget speech in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday. The load-bearing bicycles, which were imported by Transport Minister Dullah Omar from China, were intended to make the lives of rural women easier and to unlock rural mobility, Ndebele said.