Word: gatsha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee formed to protest the celebrations: "The Republic Festival is window dressing to fool the world that all is fine in sunny South Africa." Snapped Black Leader Gatsha Buthelezi: "We cannot celebrate our own oppression...
...efforts to make even a modified homelands scheme palatable to blacks, Botha still faces determined opposition from a formidable black spokes man: Gatsha Buthelezi, the leader of 5.5 million Zulus, who form South Africa's largest ethnic bloc. Their territory, called KwaZulu, consists of 29 land fragments in a region otherwise reserved for whites...