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‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Editorial   来源:Features  查看:  评论:0
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Metropolitan Police officers were pictured outside the Oxford Street event, which the band said on X had sold out in 90 seconds.

Trump has given a boost to the right-wing, with some of them gathering outside the US embassy in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, in February with placards that read: "Make South Africa Great Again" - an adaptation of Trump's "Make America Great Again".South Africa's Land Reform Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso acknowledged that the meeting in the Oval Office was "uncomfortable to watch".

‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy

"There is no genocide in South Africa... There is crime in South Africa like in other countries and this crime affects many people, " he told the BBC's Newshour programme.Nyhontso applauded Ramaphosa for keeping his composure, rather than firing back at Trump when he ambushed him, with guns blazing.Some also commended the South African president for his tactics - bringing along famous Afrikaner golfers to the meeting to defuse tensions.

‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy

When invited to talk, Ernie Els took out his South African passport to prove his patriotism - and spoke of his respect for Mandela after he managed to unite the country at the end of apartheid - but said he wanted to see South Africa flourish with America's help.Retief Goosen perhaps added more fuel to the fire, speaking of how difficult it was for his brother to farm outside the northern town of Polokwane - explaining how he faced a "constant battle" with people trying to "burn the farm down and to chase you away".

‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy

Though he ended by saying that despite their fear of crime, "the guys live a great life, despite what's going on".

Billionaire businessman Johann Rupert, also an Afrikaner, pointed out that the highest murder rate in South Africa was in the townships of Cape Town, where most residents are black or coloured - as mixed-race people are known in South Africa - and are at the mercy of violent gangs.Trump surreptitiously visited the Qatari plane in Palm Beach, near his Mar-a-Lago resort, just a few weeks after the start of his second term in office.

The president insists there is no quid-pro-quo involved and that the plane is a simple exchange between two allies.On Truth Social he wrote: "The Defense Department is getting a gift, free of charge, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40-year-old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction."

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has said the transfer "is a government-to-government transaction."It has nothing to do with personal relationships - neither on the US side, nor the Qatari side. It's between the two defence ministries," he said.

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