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The Dalai Lama.
An application on whether it was constitutional for the government not to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama last year, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday.
Judge Elizabeth Baartman dismissed the application by the IFP and Cope with costs.
The Dalai Lama cancelled his intended trip to South Africa to attend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday on October 4.
He said he had done so to avoid inconveniencing the South African government.
The government's failure to grant the visa, however, sparked a public outcry with Tutu accusing President Jacob Zuma's administration of being “worse than the apartheid government”.
The IFP and Cope subsequently filed an application in the High Court for an order declaring Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma's handling of the matter unlawful and forcing her to treat future applications by the Dalai Lama fairly.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has invited the Dalai Lama to visit him in 2012. – Sapa
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Fred, wrote
When the ANC were still terrorists they would have been up in arms about something like this.Are they still terrorists, but just in another guise?
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