With a National Treasury deadline looming for the city to explain why it should not lose about R500m in critical grants, Nelson Mandela Bay acting city boss Luvuyo Magalela is scrambling to find answers as to why the city underspent its annual budget.
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana believes it was necessary for his department to stop conditional grant payouts to underspending municipalities this financial year to “safeguard the funds against possible misuse”.
we have terrorists coming through the southern border because they find that s probably the easiest place to come through. they drive right in and they make a left. i think most of these are being stopped at our airports, is that correct? yes, sir. the majority were through the air environment. through the air environment. maybe that s some kind of bureaucratic code designed to lessen the blow of contradicting the president who appointed you. the air is not the land on the southern border. terrorists are not rushing the southern border. when it comes to drugs, when those do head through the u.s. it s typically through the organized ports of entry which handle cargo, not land areas where trump wants to erect this wall. under questioning today kneel admitted that, too. the majority of the drbig dr loads, can t go through the ports of entry. the majority come through the ports of entry. those are some of the perceived threats. they be there is the amount of southern immigrat
Intelligence side. i think it is important to note right now, to phil s point, the most important thing is safely getting that inside the contained vessel, that rbig, round device that is like an inside out dive vessel. instead of being a submarine where you want to keep the pressure from being inside, you want the pressure inside this thing. they will probably use a bomb robot to remove it. you need to have a controlled destination. our scientists and our investigators will go over it with a fine tooth comb. how many of those have we seen, by the way, in the last 24 hours? the one yesterday from the device that was delivered here to the one this morning in tribeca. thank you, gentlemen, all for your expertise. the president is condemning threats of violence, but not taking any responsibility for his inflammatory rhetoric. he is blaming the media this
Going to have when this is all over is we have to get back to a point where you can have political debates without political violence. i mean, i m in a state where i have a republican senate i have a democratic assembly. we have handled very heated bills. we passed marriage equality, which is marriage for same sex co couples. it was hot.violence. we re not democrats and republicans. we re americans. this is red, white and blue. the day after the election, we are one nation and we live together and we work together. and it is the civic discourse that has gotten so hot and so nasty and so mean, and leaders have to remember what it means to lead. i am the governor of all new