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Students and faculty at Boston University are up in arms over the school's decision to award an honorary law degree today to the Zulu Chief, Mangosuthu Garsha Buthelezi, who many South African Black leaders have condemned as an obstacle to the effort to end apartheid...
Eric V. Puchala, president of the BU Political Forum, says that because the South African government appointed Buthelezi to lead the 6 million Zulus--and that the Zulus must align themselves with the Zulu party--Buthelezi actually "suppresses" opposition to apartheid...
...Chief Buthelezi is one of the main Black spokesmen for the moderate point of view in South Africa," says Ronald Goldman, an associate dean...
Goldman says Buthelezi assumed responsibility for leading the Zulu people in order to prevent their homeland from becoming a "so-called independent Bantustan." Goldman cites the chief's role in efforts to form a South African legislature made up of both Black and whites as another reason for honoring him with a degree...
...minutes after the scheduled start of her meeting with Botha that one of King's aides brought the message that she would not keep the appointment. The President said her absence was caused by "those who find themselves in a make-believe world of political fraud." For his part, Buthelezi charged that King had fallen prey to the "internecine political feuding which so lamentably characterizes black South African politics...