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Once again our faithful government does not fail to amuse us...

FRIDAY’S planned peace conference could not be called a peace conference without the Dalai Lama, the Independent Democrats said yester day.

Leader Patricia de Lille said that moves not to have the Tibetan spiritual leader attend the 2010 World Cup peace conference to be held in South Africa were hypocritical.

The Dalai Lama had visited before.

De Lille was responding to a report that the Dalai Lama had not been able to get a visa to travel to South Africa.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said he had not been invited by the government, through whom all the invitations would have gone.

Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the decision not to invite him was taken in the best interests of the country.

“So therefore the question of the visas doesn’t exist.”

Mamoepa would not elaborate on his comment that it was in the best interests of the country.

A report in the Sunday Independent newspaper quoted Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who is in California, saying he had written to President Kgalema Motlanthe.

“If His Holiness’s visa is refused, then I won’t take part in the ... peace conference,” Tutu said.

Dai Bing, ministerial counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Pretoria, said his government had appealed to the South African government not to allow the Dalai Lama in, warning that this would harm bilateral relations.

In a statement, Democratic Alliance foreign affairs spokesperson Tony Leon said “it beggars belief that our government would go out of its way to block the Dalai Lama”. — Sapa

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=302960
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any idea on why the chinese government wouldnt want the dalai lama here?
 
hxc87x said:
any idea on why the chinese government wouldnt want the dalai lama here?
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I dunno. But if he was invited he should have refused to come given the fact S.A is a war zone. How moronic is this. Peaceniks coming to a war zone for a peace conference :rolleyes:

Reminds me of the U.N conference on racism being held in S.A where racial discrimination is allowed in our Constitution. What a joke
 
Alan said:
I dunno. But if he was invited he should have refused to come given the fact S.A is a war zone. How moronic is this. Peaceniks coming to a war zone for a peace conference :rolleyes:

Reminds me of the U.N conference on racism being held in S.A where racial discrimination is allowed in our Constitution. What a joke
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which part is a war zone??? which constitution allows racism???
 
The_Pumpkin_King said:
which part is a war zone??? which constitution allows racism???
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Just as many South Africans died asPalestinians during the recent Israeli military assault on Gaza going by our 50 a day average. More are murdered in a year than in Afghanistan. Except for 2006(71 a day) 2007 (61) more South Africans suffer violent deaths in a day than Iraqis. War zone? Yes I'd say so.


Ours does. The State implements Affirmative Action which discriminates against people based on their race. They wouldn't get away with it if it was unconstitutional
 
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Isnt this as a result of the latest trade deal between SA and China?
China now using that as the reason to stop the Dalia Lama from being allowed in, maybe they will curve development funding?
I think its shocking and sickening - the fact that on request from China we stop one of the most peaceful people on earth from attending a peace conference. Rediculous, bunch of bloody no brain idiots running this country.
 
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