After watching the 7 o’clock news and seeing the old Bishop Tutu fuming and angry over the rejection of the Dalai lama‘s visa, the following morning the public responded differently. One man who caught my attention and inspired me to pen and paper is the one who said in a Zulu assent “he want to bring the DILAYI LAMA here fore lousy birthday u know and spoil the relationship which the government has with China.” They are three things involved here; the lousy birthday, DILAYI LAMA ignore my pronunciation if reading spelling and china. A birthday comes once a year like Christmas and every child and Bishops would do anything to make sure their favorite girlfriends and friends are there. For the Bishop he wanted his colleague Dalai Lama to be present, well things didn’t turn out as expected. So the Bishop had to come out of retirement and earn himself another Nobel peace prize, maybe call it campaign against violation of human birthdays, or call it how a Bishop saved a Monk ‘ Jesus saves’.
Faith without works is dead. The Bishop threatened with prayer, he threatened to pray for the downfall of the ANC .That is so scary if I was the Bishop myself I would have prayed for the Visa long back and save my prayers for other things like unity in the ANC and peaceful hearing of Julius Malema.
The big question is why did the government not grant the Dalai Lama his visa? The first possible reason is it is a threat to government‘s relations with China and the second reported reason was that the Tibetan leader did not send his papers on time. The other burning question is if Tutu knew about the China government relations visa vi the threat that the Tibetan leader would be to them(relations), why then did he go on to invite him. If he had to consider the consequences to the nation as a whole and its economy rather than cutting a cake with his Prize mate what would he chose?
While on the other hand the anger of the Archbishop is justifiable. The Chinese government has no right to interfere in the Dalai Lama’s social visits that do not involve any political or economic reasons. He wanted to come to South Africa just to party nothing more. He won’t take a lot of seats by the way; he will just sit down and mind his own business.
I guess the Struggle is still on the final victory has not yet come. Big up to the Bishop he sure is a man of faith I quote “faith without works is dead”. Before I close my chapter today I would like to send my prayer request addressed to the Bishop.
Dear Tutu
I am a Zimbabwean and I applied for my visa last year in December, the government promised that it will be out in few weeks. Now its 10 months I haven’t received anything, every day I have to part ways with a couple of Rands to the Police. Please Bishop remember me in your prayers even as we pray for this government
Your fellow African
Anonymous
NB* my birthday is around the corner. I would like to travel too.
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