Word: buthelezi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finger at me." On the line, Mandela is respectful and speaks to Botha in Afrikaans. The conversation is off the record. After hanging up, Mandela calls his two junior partners in the government of national unity, Botha's successor, F.W. de Klerk, and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, and solicits their opinions on Botha's views...
...longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
Mandela: Our security forces are at present overstretched. But the fact that ((Zulu leader Mangosuthu)) Buthelezi is now participating ((in the government)) might make it unnecessary to have such large concentrations of security forces in Natal. Therefore we might have a unit available. There are many problems facing Africa, so I would be well disposed to assisting, provided I feel confident that the situation in this country is normal...
...Three days ago I met ((right-wing leader)) General Constand Viljoen and had very fruitful discussions with him. We made a plan as to how to deal with the demands of the Afrikaners. ((Viljoen, whose party won 2% of the vote, is seeking an Afrikaner state.)) The entry of Buthelezi into the elections and now the fact that he is going to serve in the government of national unity will actually reduce violence in Natal, and perhaps it will disappear altogether. As far as the question of the Third Force ((of right-wing security-force elements allegedly subverting democracy...
...invisible ink used to mark the hands of those who had already made their choice. The ballots, printed weeks ago, did not include the last entry in the race, the Inkatha Freedom Party, and had to be updated with paste-on stickers; to ensure fairness, Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi demanded a fourth day of voting. While exasperated thousands waited, election workers gave puzzled first timers impromptu lessons in how to mark a ballot. Mandela said some of the ballot shortages looked like outright "sabotage," and he too called for another day of polling. At last the election officials requested...