19th November 2009

Yesterday Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP met with the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in Rome. 

The meeting took place during the three day World Summit on Food Security which debated hunger in Africa and saw His Holiness becoming very outspoken about the world's incapacity to feed all its children. 

Prince Buthelezi is equally concerned about ensuring food security for all Africans, a campaign which he himself has conducted for fifty years, with good results in his own areas. 

The meeting took place while Prince Buthelezi was attending the 5th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet attended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Prince Buthelezi had the privilege of chairing a session of this 5th World Convention which is deliberating on how parliamentarians across the world can support the cause of democracy and autonomy in Tibet which, as all parliamentarians agreed, coincides with the cause of democracy, autonomy and cultural diversity anywhere in the world. 

The Convention placed great emphasis on the very political methodology of non-violence, passive resistance and active commitment which has inspired Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi throughout his life.