Word: gatsha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what's left? Huntington offers "a small ray of hope" in the form of local or regional negotiations, along the lines of the Natal Indaba. There, he says, white officials and businessmen on one side, and Kwazulu bantustan chief minister Gatsha Buthelezi on the other, are managing to talk to each other. This, he suggests, provides an example for other local negotiations, a pattern that "could gradually build up from below and lead to national negotiations and more fundamental change at the national level...
Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...
...Chief Gatsha Butheleza, a former lieutenant of the African National Congress and leader of the Black political movement Inkatha, has called American investment in South Africa morally imperative "Anything geared towards the weakening of the economy muscle of Blacks will have the effect of retarding their liberation struggle...
...first steps in a long retreat. Says Helen Suzman, an opposition M.P. and one of the government's most articulate opponents: "The new constitution is based on apartheid. It leaves out the best feature (of a democratic system), namely universal franchise under the rule of law." Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, a leading black moderate, has declared that those who participated in the recent elections were committing a "mammoth betrayal" of the black population. On the other hand, Afrikaner diehards agreed with Eugene Terreblanche, head of an extreme-right group, who said that "South Africa, the land of promise, will...
...antiapartheid groups-principally the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), a multiracial coalition of some 600 South African union, church, cultural, sports and community organizations-called for a boycott of the polls. On election day, 624,000 colored students at more than 70 schools and universities stayed home in protest. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of South Africa's 5.5 million Zulus, the country's largest black ethnic bloc, hinted ominously of possible black reprisals against those who voted. Said he: "We feel betrayed because so many of our colored and Indian brothers and sisters are rushing forward with their tongues...