Tibet Spiritual Leader, Dalai Lama Refused South African Visa For Third Time
Dalai Lama has been refused to make an entry into South Africa. His South African representative said he has been planning to go to South Af...
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Dalai Lama has been refused to make an entry into South Africa. His South African representative said he has been planning to go to South Africa to attend the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.
This visa application rejection by South Africa for the Dalai Lama is the third time happening for the spiritual leader of the disputed Tibet region in five years, his representative said on Thursday.
Representative of the Dalai Lama, Nangsa Choedon said that the government conveyed the message to him by phone saying that they would not be able to give him the visa. The reason they said was that it would interrupt the relations between South Africa and China. Choedon further said Dalai Lama has decided to cancel his trip to South Africa for now.
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is an annual meeting, slated to happen in Cape Town next month. A local organizing committee formed by the foundations is making all arrangements for the summit. The foundations represent four South African laureates – Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk, and Albert Luthuli.
Some reports also say the visa is not denied, but under process. The South African foreign ministry confirmed that its High Commission in New Delhi had received the visa application of Dalai Lama but denied it had been rejected, saying it was going on through “normal due process”. A spokesperson said the related authorities would communicate with the applicant thereafter.
The spiritual leader has been denied visa for two times previously; two years ago officials of South Africa had “unreasonably delayed” a decision on permitting a visa to Dalai Lama in 2011, mainly out of fear of irritating China, now a major African investor and trading partner.
Because of the postponement, Dalai Lama was not able to attend the 80th birthday of his friend and fellow Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town in October 2011. The previous visa denial, in 2009, was also for a peace conference.
Source: Truth Dive
This visa application rejection by South Africa for the Dalai Lama is the third time happening for the spiritual leader of the disputed Tibet region in five years, his representative said on Thursday.
Representative of the Dalai Lama, Nangsa Choedon said that the government conveyed the message to him by phone saying that they would not be able to give him the visa. The reason they said was that it would interrupt the relations between South Africa and China. Choedon further said Dalai Lama has decided to cancel his trip to South Africa for now.
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is an annual meeting, slated to happen in Cape Town next month. A local organizing committee formed by the foundations is making all arrangements for the summit. The foundations represent four South African laureates – Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk, and Albert Luthuli.
Some reports also say the visa is not denied, but under process. The South African foreign ministry confirmed that its High Commission in New Delhi had received the visa application of Dalai Lama but denied it had been rejected, saying it was going on through “normal due process”. A spokesperson said the related authorities would communicate with the applicant thereafter.
The spiritual leader has been denied visa for two times previously; two years ago officials of South Africa had “unreasonably delayed” a decision on permitting a visa to Dalai Lama in 2011, mainly out of fear of irritating China, now a major African investor and trading partner.
Because of the postponement, Dalai Lama was not able to attend the 80th birthday of his friend and fellow Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town in October 2011. The previous visa denial, in 2009, was also for a peace conference.
Source: Truth Dive
This is Eastern imperialism at its peak. The Chinese portray themselves as merely investors who are passionate about the development of other countries while Western nations meddle in their internal affairs and destabilising regions. Like the popular saying, the devil you know may be better than the angel you do not know. South Africa is a member of BRICS and a major trading partner of China. Certainly they wouldn't want to infuriate their Big Brother (or is it Partner?). The good Dalai Lama who is a Nobel Laureate has been denied visa for a third time!!! Even when his visits are for non-political reasons. Oh to hell with the Americans, they're the ones who strong arm every country, but what is this China is doing? Fact: The strong dominate the weak. Any world power (or supposed world power) will control all other regions within its sphere of influence whether they realize it or not. Africa, where is your sphere of influence? Do you control, or are you controlled? Development is not rocket science. The world powers today worked their way there from obscurity, that means there is a blueprint to become a state of influence in world affairs. The world we live in today is in a fragile peace; a tug of war between east and west, with who in the middle? You guessed right. Africans! Wake Up!!!
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