Dalai Lama cancels S. Africa expedition more documents flap
Tutu had invited the fellow Nobel freedom from strife laureate to South Africa to attend his 80th birthday political party celebrations. South African foreign department officials take part in denied accusations they were bowing to pressure from collectibles, which accuses the Dalai Lama of being a separatist. The Dalai Lama insists he is individual seeking increased self-sufficiency used for Tibet, the homeland from which he has been exiled since 1959. Dumisa Ntesebeza, chairman of the Desmond Tutu concord Centre, which had designed to host a speech by the Dalai Lama on Saturday, the time gone Tutus birthday, alleged he possibly will not directly comment. The foreign office spokesman Clayson Monyela refused comment. civil rights groups, academics, opposition parties and newspapers within South Africa had pushed their government to allow the Dalai Lama a pass.