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South Africa engineers PR disasterNEWSWATCH: The South African government's decision to deny the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, a visa to visit the country for a peace conference on Friday, 27 March 2009, has backfired. According to various media reports, Government maintained his presence would draw attention away from SA, and our hosting of 2010. Its decision has instead drawn international attention to SA for all the wrong reasons and the conference has been cancelled. Government's refusal to grant a visa has led to South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and former president FW de Klerk to boycott the event, according to the Mail & Guardian Online, The New York Times, WowOwow and Phayul.com. This has been followed by the executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, saying that he too would not attend the conference. The SA government has denied any pressure from the Chinese government to block the Dalai Lama's visit. However, many observers believe that is the reason for Government's action, which has been reported in the world's media. Unusually for SA, where ministers almost always toe the official line, according to the M&G Online Health Minister Barbara Hogan is reported to have condemned the snub and called on the government to apologise. For more:
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