Word: buthelezi
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Setting the trend, the Afrikaner Volksfront has a similar, but more institutionalized, bond with Gatsha Buthelezi and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal. Their Freedom Alliance poses a serious threat to the prospect of free and fair elections, a threat no-one could have perceived even a year...
...Buthelezi Agrees to Talk...
After months of political wrangling and escalating violence, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said his party has provisionally registered for South Africa's April 26-28 elections. In return, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela agreed to submit to international arbitration the two parties' deep differences over the country's constitution...
...free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...Buthelezi's objections raised doubts about whether multiparty talks could resume by the end of the year as De Klerk and Mandela hoped. The peace process has managed, however, to survive despite the Sept. 7 killing of 29 A.N.C. protesters who marched on the "independent" homeland of Ciskei. In findings released last week, Justice Richard Goldstone criticized A.N.C. officials for exposing their followers to danger but reserved his strongest condemnation for Ciskei authorities, saying "their indiscriminate shooting at innocent demonstrators was morally indefensible...