Business is more important than human rights. Back during the bad years, the apartheid government, and friends like the Republicans in the US, all supported a policy of putting business before human rights. What cowards they are today in the ANC.
South Africa barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg this week, saying Monday it did not want to endanger the government's relationship with China. The move prompted sharp criticism from the Nobel Committee, among others.Too bad the ANC doesn't value peace and human rights. How quickly some forget.
Thabo Masebe, spokesman for President Kgalema Motlanthe, said now was not the time for such a high-profile visit from the Tibetan spiritual leader and added that South Africa hoped to avoid being "the source of negative publicity about China."....
"We do value our relationship with China," Masebe said Monday.
