His Holiness refused a Visa again !!!

Our so-called leaders ( and wannabe rulers) have lost whatever shred of morals, ethics, humanity they may have had...

Not in my name...

I think the whole shooting match has been moved away from South Africa

How embarrassing for your leaders

Madiba would be severley pissed off

Bob Brogan wrote: I think the whole shooting match has been moved away from South Africa

How embarrassing for your leaders

Madiba would be severley pissed off

"It is with sadness that I am unable to join you. It is a sadness so profound it almost brings me to my knees. Oh South Africa, how can you do such a thing?" wrote Williams.

"Is apartheid and the horror of those years so quickly gone from your souls that you allow the denial of a visa to one of our colleagues and greatest peace workers on Earth, His Holiness the Dalai Lama?"

Williams(Betty) was a joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, together with Mairead Corrigan, for her work in bringing peace in Northern Ireland. She now works with a non-profit organisation, World Centres of Compassion for Children International, which she founded in 1997.

I cannot understand how you can justify such an action yet our brother Bob can cross the border for a lunch any time he likes.

Cape Town - The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Cape Town has been cancelled after more laureates pulled out of the event to protest the government's refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, according to reports.

The Cape Argus reported on Wednesday that sources confirmed the event, which was scheduled to have been held in Cape Town from 13 to 15 October, would no longer go ahead.

Friends of Tibet tweeted that the event had been cancelled "owing to denial of visa by host country" to the Dalai Lama.

The City of Cape Town was scheduled to make an official announcement on Thursday, the Argus reported.

The Hindustan Times reported that a new venue would be announced on Thursday after the conference was pulled from South Africa.

Jody Williams, the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said she was "proud" to say the protest by a number of female laureates had resulted in the summit being cancelled.

Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told a media conference in India she was surprised that Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu had not spoken out against the South African government's move, AFP reported.

It was reported last week that six women Nobel laureates - Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, American activist Jody Williams, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, Yemeni journalist Tawakkol Karman, Northern Irish activist Mairead Maguire and a representative of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines - had cancelled their trip after the government refused to issue the Dalai Lama a visa.

According to the Hindustan Times, the summit was meant to have been held in Costa Rica eight years ago, but was also cancelled when the Chinese government put pressure on the government not to give the Dalai Lama a visa.

DA leader Helen Zille tweeted that the news was "tragic".

China, Russia, USA...we have no ethics....

Cape Town - Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille will make an announcement on Thursday relating to the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates to be held in the city.

This after the Cape Argus reported on Wednesday that the summit had been called off, citing unnamed independent sources.

Nobel peace prize winner Jody Williams told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday that the summit had been cancelled because "enough Nobel laureates refused to go".

Last month, 14 Nobel laureates wrote to President Jacob Zuma asking that a South African travel visa be granted to the Dalai Lama.

This was the third time in five years he could not secure a visa to enter South Africa.

At the time the international relations department said the Dalai Lama's visa application was a closed matter, and that he had cancelled his trip.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday criticised the government for allegedly refusing a visa to the Tibetan spiritual leader.

"I am ashamed to call this lickspittle bunch my government," he said in a statement.

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