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...chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above but to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the nation's 6 million Zulus. A total of 83% of Afrikaner businessmen polled picked Buthelezi, 57, as a "good leader," compared with 67% for Botha...
...Buthelezi's primary appeal to whites lies in his endorsement of capitalist principles, his commitment to nonviolence and his willingness to resolve the nation's racial differences through compromise. Many South Africans regard him as perhaps the only man, white or black, who can bring about a peaceful end to the hated apartheid system. This very prominence makes him a figure of suspicion and even derision among many militant blacks, who dismiss him as a puppet of the Pretoria government. Even so, all sides agree that the Zulu chief is likely to play a pivotal role in the future...
Last month Buthelezi opened a historic indaba, or meeting, between whites and blacks to discuss guidelines for creating in his home state of Natal the country's first completely multiracial government. If the proposals are ever accepted, Buthelezi, who has steadfastly refused government offers of independence for KwaZulu, the territory within Natal designated as the Zulu homeland, could become provincial governor, the first black ever to hold such a post. Some observers suggest that the innovative power-sharing plan could serve as a model for the country as a whole. Indeed, if apartheid were to be totally dismantled and black...
...Buthelezi's political base is the 1 million-strong Inkatha, the Zulu movement he leads. On May Day, when militant black union leaders who favor divestiture spearheaded a nationwide walkout, Buthelezi staged a rally to launch a new labor organization to challenge them. "Why are they so persistent to push disinvestment even with the knowledge that we blacks, whom they purport to be helping, are the ones who will suffer most?" he asks...
There is, however, growing debate within South Africa's black community about how to achieve those aims. A crowd of about 70,000, mostly Zulus, gathered in a Durban stadium to launch the United Workers Union of South Africa. The Zulu leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, criticized the other unions for their calls for economic sanctions against the government. Said Buthelezi: "There are people who want to abuse workers by using them to destabilize the economy. Whoever rules in South Africa in another decade or two will need the wealth, which can only be created by a stable economy...