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...Inkatha men told Shibe that he was shot in revenge for the bloodshed in downtown Johannesburg, where a day earlier thousands of Zulus clashed with A.N.C. security guards and police in running gun battles through the city's steel and glass canyons. The violence, said Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi ominously, marked the beginning of "a final struggle to the finish between the A.N.C. and the Zulu nation...
...white parties boycotting the elections in an attempt to preserve some of the privileges they had accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, missed the deadline, he indicated he may not work to disrupt the balloting, as many have feared...
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...