Lyndall Beddy

This also shows that the decision of the Dalai Lama was not taken at Cabinet level, or Barbara would have known.

So who did make the decision?

Anna Varney-Wong

The Dalai Lama should be granted citizenship in South Africa as an apology. When Chine threatened Canada, they offered the Dalai Lama citizenship.
WHat has happened is disgraceful

garth

If you look at blogs and comments all over South Africa, the vast majority are aligned with Barbara…over 90%. People aren’t stupid. They know China is an important trading partner…..Duh! Yet, a huge number of South Africans alive today still remember the struggle they each had to personally endure during Apartheid with their own oppressive regime. They remember the personal price they paid with murdered family members. The freedom South Africa enjoys today was hard fought and came at the price of many thousands of South African lives not unlike the struggle of His Holiness and the repressed people of Tibet.

If we are left to our own resources, something new and beautiful can grow out of that. The continual lack of confidence in ourselves is what will keep us locked in a continuous cycle of looking for masters to dominate us.

Bonginkosi

The president or government really messed this one up. Their logic is illogical. I’m just now wondering how long this patriot will survive as a minister?

Eli Jikelele

Fare thee well, Barbara Hogan. We will all be sorry to see you go when Zuma kicks you out of his leadership. You should know that speaking truth to power is taboo in the new ANC.

Lerato

For a peaceful man, he is sure making a lot of noise!

Anna Varney-Wong

What’s doing down in this country is in need of a change of direction! let’s start an upward movement for positive change.

Kumaran

A salute to the moral fibre of Barbara Hogan.

Today’s newspapers cite the bafflement of the government that a minister could even conceive of going against the collective view – How did we even get to this form of assumed autocracy and blind croneyism? Should FW have cowed to the presiding government as well?

I remember Madiba seriously lambasting an American reporter who presumed to ask if he would continue his ties with parties the Americans did not like – Moral fibre!

Our government has forgetten what leadership is and that in a democracy leaders are elected and should expect not to rule but to serve.

From the hip

Seriously, with her blabbering Barbara Hogan has become the personification of hypocrisy!

Wasn’t she the one that fought to abolish aparthied! Now she supports a man who promotes separation between people from Tibet and people from China!

Please try to be consistent.

sipho

“When the international community engages with China, if we only focus on temporary economic benefits, but keep silent on human rights issues, it is the same as supporting the CCP. … From this perspective, keeping silent equals being accomplices to the CCP’s tyranny”

Who said this? Do you think it was the Dalai Lama?

NOPE! How about Mr. Li Fengzhi. Who’s he, you ask? Don’t know? He was a Chinese Intelligence Officer of the Ministry of State Security. On March 11, 2009, Mr. Li became the first person who had worked in China’s espionage system to publicly renounce his membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On March 15, 2009, Li was the focus of two rallies in Washington DC, celebrating the withdrawal of 51 million Chinese from the CCP or its affiliated organizations.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n…..iew/14000/

Within the CCP, millions are deserting. There are so many empty seats in the national assembly, it is embarrassing. This is a huge crisis in China. The ordinary people are disgusted with their treatment. Sound vaguely familiar to South Africans? The Chinese people are not the enemy, the CCP is.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n…..iew/14118/

Li said that when the state police monitor the people, they are positioned well to know the truth because they have access to the uncensored news denied to the people, and they may witness firsthand the sufferings of the regime’s victims. He said that he and many of his colleagues at the Ministry of State Security, were “furious” at the CCP’s abuse of the country’s resources to deal with decent Chinese folks.

A recently freed Singapore report, Cheng Xiang, a former veteran reporter for Singapore’s The Straits Times, imprisoned by the Chinese government for 3 years has estimated that up to 80 million innocent chinese people have been MURDERED by the CCP. That’s 2x the population of South Africa! I wonder if the government of South Africa knew this? I hope not, coz if they did they are knowingly dealing with a government that has MURDERED 80 million of its own citizens!

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n.....iew/14101/

Li and his secret service comrades ceased to trust and have confidence in the CCP.

How do Revolution happen in the former USSR? Remember when Yeltsin was standing on the tank after Gorbachev was placed under house arrest? The KGB elite squardron Alpha Group had their rifles aimed at Yeltsin. They could have killed him and history would have been different. They sympathized with the people though, just as the Chinese Ministry of State Security are now doing.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n…..iew/14085/

Watch what happens to the ANC when China falls! BEWARE! Party members should choose with their conscience and not their pocketbooks!

Nadia

We as South Africans have to make our voices heard and say no to the prejudice which Government claims is clear reason.
This is meant to be a peace conference and He was invited as were the other nobel winners.

It is a sad day for South Africa when they become hypocrites who stand 4 things they do not themselves uphold

Lerato

Now is the time to stop buying products made in China.
And if things don’t move along – time will come to boycott World Cup in SA

Natali

It’s amazing what power does to people. They suddenly become the supressors that they spent their youths fighting against.
What happened to the democracy, fighting for the peoples believes? The people of South Africa believe in freedom, that’s what so many died for!

sipho

Chinese Communist Party oppression is no longer confined to within its borders, but trying to reach its tentacles to the rest of the world. In medicine, they call uncontrolled growth CANCER.

Ex chinese spy Li Fengzhi says about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): “The CCP is a true impediment to China’s development and also a poisonous root damaging the whole world and the Chinese nation.”

I think members of the ANC should read this article and also read the writing on the ANC wall:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n.....038;page=0

Up to 60 million chinese citizens have been murdered. Why are we even doing business with them? No wonder African henchmens like doing biz with them! We can rebuild an economy without them. We cannot justify supporting such a ruthless regime that see’s life as so expendible.

The communist system may be on its way out from internal implosion. The book NINE COMMENTARIES (go to youtube) has been circulated throughout China and the subjugated masses are beginning to wake up just like they did in the former USSR. 51 million members have already resigned from the CCP; 50,000 per day.It’s a crisis in China. If they do revolt, South Africans must support their resistance!

NO TO CHINAFRICA!

sipho

China bullies countries like South Africa through economic bribery & dependency. China is ruining the world with it’s uncontrolled growth; in medicine, the word they use is cancer.

‘China is just going to consume everything — let’s get it now!’ ” Lucy Corkin, projects director for the Centre for Chinese Studies at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University,

Ex chinese spy Li Fengzhi says about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): “The CCP is a true impediment to China’s development and also a poisonous root damaging the whole world and the Chinese nation.”

Barbara Hogan and others are right to stand against this worst regime in modern history.
Up to 60 million chinese have been murdered but because of the book NINE COMMENTARIES (See Youtube) 51 million members have already resigned from the CCP; 50,000 per day.If revolution happens and China implodes, South Africa must support it’s Chinese compatriots to expell the CCP.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n.....038;page=0

Chinafrica is our new continent:

http://www.fastcompany.com/mag.....l?page=0,0

“the secrecy and elitism that already define the government of China, and many of those in Africa, are poised to usher in a toxic intercontinental corruption we can hardly yet imagine.” Robert Behar

Chinese companies are the second-most likely to be bribed, Transparency International’s Bribe Payers Index

sipho

OK, Do we want to really do business with a Country that does LIVE ORGAN HARVESTING against people it doesn’t like? …..That is, taking organs from thousands of Falun Gong members….while they are still alive! and then burning their bodies afterwards. This govt is worst than the Nazi’s!

Read this report, compiled and investigated by 2 Canadian Lawyers/Ministers who are human rights activists damning the Chinese Communist Party.
Hey South African Government, read this! Do we still want to do business with this subhuman regime?

http://organharvestinvestigati.....c160145104

Larry Goodfella

To ‘From the hip’

Try commenting from the brain. The Dalai Lama is not promoting seperateness as in apartheid, you dolt.
The Tibetan people, as an ethnic group, are oppressed by the Chinese the same way whites used to oppress blacks in this country.

Kumaran

2 ‘shoot from the hip’ – Nice nickname