Word: gatsha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their poetry often flares with a sense of lost grandeur, as in Oswald Mtshali's lines about King Shaka: "Lo. You can kill me/ But you will never rule this land." That proud defiance is perhaps best epitomized today by Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu territorial government. Buthelezi, 49, is relentless in his condemnation of white supremacy. He has insisted that his government will not take an oath of allegiance to the South African government. In that resistance, he believes, the tribe is fighting the last Zulu...
...operate it. After weeks of watching the test transmissions, he decided to sell the TV and keep the generator. Many whites, on the other hand, for the first time saw what South Africa's black regions and their leaders looked like when Zulu-land's Chief Gatsha Buthelezi and the Transkei's Kaiser Matanzima appeared on news programs...
...independence. Black tribal land was originally promised in 1936, but much acreage still has not been turned over. Even if it were, black chiefs say, the total area would still be inadequate. Vorster claims that he cannot grant more land because the 1936 act ties his hands. "Nonsense," retorts Gatsha Buthelezi, 45, chief minister for the country's 4,250,000 Zulus. "Parliament made that law in 1936, and it can unmake...
...whites are working alongside blacks; and if familiarity has not always bred respect, at least it has helped to reduce racial fears. On a national level, the country's black politicians have been concentrating on achieving black power in the Bantustans, a goal acceptable to the Afrikaners. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, 42, chief minister of Zululand, last month told white students at Stellenbosch University that "if the majority of whites have now decided to set up blacks in separate states, we have no means to resist it, even if we wanted to." But, he declared, "it must be clear that...