durban : organized of a closed meeting that was to have been attends by five nobel winners in zurich this week mentioned yesterday that they had canceled it after the south african government denied a visa to the dalai lama . each of south africa ' s pulitzer - prize laureates , the retired archdeacon archbishop desmond thabo and former president f . p . de frederik , denounced the government for given in to pressure from china to block the tibetan spiritual leadership ' s approach into the country and said they would refuse to attend in the contest if he was not there . the executive director of the norwegian nobel jury , yuasa lundestad , also say he better stay away .
The Peace Conference in South Africa has been canceled, giving support to the Dalai Lama.