Speaker, I give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move, on behalf of the IFP:
That the House -
1) debates the refusal of entry of His Holiness the Dalai Lama into South Africa in March 2009;
2) notes that the Dalai Lama was due to attend a conference on freedom in Tibet along with South African Nobel Laureates, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk; 3) believes that this refusal of entry was due, in principle, to political pressure being exerted upon the government of South Africa by the People's Republic of China and there was no reason, other than that of political interest, for preventing the Dalai Lama from entering South Africa; and
4) notes that this was an aberration of our fundamental constitutional rights of religious freedom, freedom of speech and opinion, as well as the Dalai Lama's reasonable entitlement to just administrative action.