Imtiaz Sooliman – Business Caf 22 June 2023 PART 4
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A woman discusses her experience in Sudan and how she was approached by the government to obtain money to cover the cost of a bus. She talks about how she was approached by the government and how they made arrangements to allow people to go through the border without the necessary paperwork. She also mentions how the government is very
the most impossible to talk to and how people are not
the most impossible to talk to.
the most impossible to talk to and how people are not
the most impossible to talk to.
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I
want to say something again about the spiritual law in the Sudan
evacuation.
Derko called me a DG, and he said, Can you help with money? They're
not sure if they can access the embassy to get money to hide the
bus. We managed to arrange two busses, and then they found the
money, $44,000 which is exactly the right amount to pay for two
busses. Not one cent more, not one cent this, or not $1 less, $1
more. And they came and got the busses. But because the network
was so bad, some of them didn't get the message and they left. The
busses left them
so the certificates were stuck. So we said, we'll put up the third
bus, but the bus company wants cash, no credit card, no ft, no
banks are working. It's all closed, so there's no guarantee
that they will get their money. They want cash money, and we had
no cash money there. I was not even in the country. But again,
things work in different ways. One of my team members, who's now
Middle East representative, we moved him to Turkey to be based
there. It's much easier to work from there for many things. I
called him, I said, Dr Malik, you stayed seven years in Sudan. You
see, everything has some back history. He stayed seven years in
Sudan. I said, you know the lingo, you know the guys make the call.
He calls the bus driver. Five minutes before we spoke to the bus
driver, he said, no money. I mean not bus driver, bus company, the
owner, no money, no bus. Dr Malik calls him three minutes later. He
tells us who needs money? Take the bus.
See, it's not our greatness.
Everything is worked out for you. I'll tell you another amazing
thing about what the our government did.
There was a lady who she was in panic mode, because when they went
to the shopping center and Khartoum, they saw people getting
shot, and we were getting raped, and children getting raped, and
she got anxiety and fear, and she just drove for the husband, 200
kilometers out to them towards the south. And then eventually we
asked, like, who's missing from the South African this? And it's
this lady. That's when and the lady and the daughter, and they
don't come out and say, how are you going to be saved? I spent one
hour from half past two in the morning to half past three in the
morning encouraging. I said, India and you need to get out. She said,
I am frozen. I can't get out into the streets. I'm terrified.
So I encouraged her and motivated her, and eventually she got in the
street and she got out. She says, My biggest problem is this, I
don't have documents. My husband doesn't have documents. My
daughter doesn't have documents. But the problem is, I've got a
South African document. My husband got an American document, and my
daughter is also an American, American document. We don't have
it. What happens when we get to the border?
There are no consular services. IPhone, decor. We made the
arrangements. What the South African lady to come out? And like
we did for everybody else, we pulled out close to 90 people. And
then I phoned the US Consul General, upper Zen at night. First
I spoke to other lady. She said, we do this tomorrow. I said, Lady,
I don't understand tomorrow. I understand now, call me Constance
General. I'll give him the ambassador's number. Was annoying
too. So I called the Consul General. She said, I'm calling
Washington right now at night, which is daytime for them. They
phoned Egypt. Unintentional mate, American husband and an American
daughter, which is original daughter of the South African
woman's on the computer
coming out to Sudan side. They can't cross. They've been blocked
from the Sudanese side. We made a couple of calls advocate Patrick
LeWitt, who worked for the UN for 10 years, we made some calls and
eventually allowed all three to go through. They got to the other
side. They can't fly now because they got no documents. The South
African can get a document, but Americans, people are not there.
Our consular services went all the way today. We took the borders.
It's a * of a long distance away. Each of borders are very
remote from Sudan. They took the trouble, they took the journey,
and they went to the border to receive them, to give them a paper
at the border, but there was no paper for the Americans. So I
called dako. I made another call. The Americans were issued with
South African passports,
and that's how they came home.
You see, there's a lot of goodness in people who understand the
language of the heart. So we need to start thinking positively,
because we have got great people in this country, that lady would
have come home without a husband and a daughter. And you know,
government is very bureaucratic, and it's especially when it comes
to diplomatic things that the most impossible to talk to. They didn't
think twice to make a South African passport, but I got a job
back some * clever lady in the airline picked up as a mistake
in the document and said, You can't fly to Cape Town. I just
made a call to the other airline and they said.
Whenever documents will fly you without documents, things can be
changed. Can be modified. There's faith and there's spirituality.
Anything is possible. Thank you.