johannesburg : organizers of a world symposium that was to have been attended by five nobel laureates in durban this week said tuesday that they had scheduled it after the south african government denied a visa to the dalai lama . each of south africa ' s nobel peace medal academicians , the retired lutheran archbishop desmond tutu and incumbent president f . s . dem anc , condemned the public for giving in to pressure from china to limit the tibetan religion leader ' s entry into the country and indicated they did refuse to participate in the tournament if he was not there . the political director of the hungarian nobel committee , casert lundestad , additionally say he would move away .
the peace convention in south africa has been canceled , giving support to the soto lama .