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...killing one another. On one side is the A.N.C., the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, whose vision is of a unified black majority taking over the reins of power. On the other is Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, president of the 1.5 million-strong Inkatha Movement and an old antagonist of the A.N.C., who has a strong investment in the traditional tribal and economic structure...
...compromise to be reached, Abernethy says, the concerned parties will have to agree on who may participate in negotiations--a tough task in itself. Right now, the major players include the ANC, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the United Democratic Front and Inkatha--a 1.5 million member group led by Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi of the Zulu nation...
...Inkatha may be the most difficult for Mandela because it is a very powerful movement in Natal," says Abernethy. "It is possible that Natal would secede from South Africa...
That right is challenged by 1.5 million Zulus, who pledge their loyalty to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He claims an equal right to participate in any negotiations, and has kept close ties to Mandela personally. But Buthelezi's Inkatha movement is suspect to many blacks for its history of cooperation with the government. The A.N.C. despises Buthelezi as a white puppet, and violent rivalry between the two organizations over the past two years has left more than 1,200 blacks dead. Also at odds with the nonracial A.N.C. is the much smaller Pan Africanist Congress, whose slogan is Africa...
Mandela's top priority might be negotiating peace among blacks. A unity conference held by the A.N.C.-allied Mass Democratic Movement in Johannesburg last week was most notable for its failure to include its two main rivals: < Inkatha, the Zulu-based organization led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who heads a Pretoria-created homeland; and the Pan-Africanists, an A.N.C. splinter group that seeks to crush white "colonialists." Much of the tension stems from the A.N.C.'s insistence that it alone can negotiate on behalf of blacks...