South Africa May Block Dalai Lama Visit
The nation of South Africa may block the Dalai Lama from receiving a visa to visit his friend and fellow Nobel prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who is celebrating his 80th birthday in South Africa. The possibility of denying the Dalai Lama entry shows China's increasing influence in Africa and has become an internal question of morality with some commentators linking the situation of the Tibetans to blacks under apartheid.