It’s rough when the headlines are grabbed by the likes of Donald Trump and Jacob Zuma, but less so when you see these two in action.
I imagine the Dalai Lama doesn’t devote a great deal of thought to ‘ol Trump, but when pressed on the matter he did manage to land a few jibes.
What happens when the person who’s moral rights you have been fighting for turns out to be as questionable as the state who banned him suggested? Ooooh.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has just stated that the South African government acted unlawfully when it delayed a decision on a visa application by the Dalai Lama. Do you remember the saga about the fact that the Dalai Lama couldn’t come to South Africa to celebrate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday in October […]
Yet another Tibetan Buddhist monk doused himself in fuel and set fire to himself in China yesterday. This brings to ten the total number of monks who’ve resorted to this extreme form of protest since March this year.
It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has today told a small news conference that China has agreed to invest approximately R19 billion in investment projects around South Africa. He’s been on a three-day visit to China, and has avoided all mention of the constant South African headache that is deciding whether the Dalai Lama should get a visa or not.
What is this, kindergarten? It seems we can no longer communicate using words and the latest vibe for leaders of the world is to pull faces. This stunning comparison, showing the covers of today’s Cape Times and Business Day broadsheets, is case in point. The Dalai Lama pretends to be the devil Whilst JZ […]
Nobel peace laureate and Richard Gere’s best mate, The Dalai Lama, is “very disappointed” by South Africa’s decision denying him a visa to enter South Africa. This, following intense pressure from China, who despise His Holiness. I really must apologise, bru – if we had anything to do with it, you know you’d get a […]