I was not on that flight
Friday, August 26, 2022 | 3250 Views |
OK PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
However, he includes Douglas Tsiako as also having been on the flight as well. Dr Ramsay is mistaken about this, but I can understand how this may have come about.
Exclusive Other than being a Motswana who, like others, would have been most sorrowed had the disaster not been averted, my only ‘involvement’ with the unfortunate incident was being able to obtain exclusive interviews with key people like Captain Arthur Rickets and Albert Scheefers, who was promoted to the rank of Colonel only some time later, as well as with sources inside the Angolan government through members of the ruling MPLA government with whom I was serving on a regional committee chaired by Thabo Mbeki of the ANC in exile then.
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