{"id":2638,"date":"2009-03-23T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2009-03-23T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:20:55","slug":"chinese-investment-in-south-africa-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/03\/23\/chinese-investment-in-south-africa-paying-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Investment in South Africa Paying Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/africa\/03\/23\/south.africa.dalai.lama.visa\/index.html\">there&#8217;s a<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>peace conference [to be held in South Africa, that is] billed as an opportunity to showcase <a class=\"cnnInlineTopic\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/South_Africa\">South Africa&#8217;s<\/a> role as a human-rights champion ahead of its hosting of soccer&#8217;s World Cup next year.   It was to bring together Noble Laureates and top soccer officials. In addition to Tutu and De Klerk, laureates <a class=\"cnnInlineTopic\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/nelson_mandela\">Nelson Mandela<\/a> and Martti Ahtisaar, Sepp Blatter, president of soccer&#8217;s international governing body, and actress Charlize Theron were invited to attend. The event had the blessing of the Nobel Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, sounds like a good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Except:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend [the] peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate did not receive a visa because it was not in South Africa&#8217;s interest for him to attend, said Thabo Masebe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice job, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there&#8217;s a: peace conference [to be held in South Africa, that is] billed as an opportunity to showcase South Africa&#8217;s role as a human-rights champion ahead of its hosting of soccer&#8217;s World Cup next year. It was to bring together Noble Laureates and top soccer officials. In addition to Tutu and De Klerk, laureates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[148,38,146,147,145],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-travel","tag-bait","tag-china","tag-dalai-lama","tag-south-africa","tag-tibet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}