Word: kwazulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talks between the government and the KwaZulu homeland are on hold...
...substantial" moves by De Klerk to curb violence, the A.N.C. voted unanimously to resume negotiations with the government and scale back its "mass action" campaign of marches and strikes. Unfortunately, this new coziness prompted a sometime De Klerk ally, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the KwaZulu homeland, to angrily announce his own boycott of the talks and warn of possibly more violence to come...
...movement has also bungled its relations with Inkatha, which may have as many as 1 million members. While congress leaders consider the Zulu chief a sellout for serving as chief minister of the Pretoria-created KwaZulu homeland, Mandela indicated that he wished to meet with Buthelezi. He was apparently overruled by hard-liners. Last August, as Buthelezi's followers sought to expand their influence beyond Inkatha's stronghold of Natal, fierce clashes erupted in the black townships around Johannesburg. By the time Mandela finally sat down in an attempt to make peace with Buthelezi last January, more than...
Most of the A.N.C. regards Buthelezi, who formed Inkatha in 1975 after working with the congress, as a sellout. They accuse him of abetting apartheid by serving as chief minister of KwaZulu, one of the ten "homelands" where blacks can exercise their political rights. The A.N.C. also condemns Buthelezi for opposing the "armed struggle" and international sanctions against Pretoria...
...least Mandela appears to understand, Buthelezi cannot be wished away. He has built up a solid constituency, though it is less representative than he would admit. Most of Inkatha's estimated 1.7 million members are Zulus residing in the KwaZulu homeland within Natal. And some of Buthelezi's policies make sense. Mandela's adherence to socialism seems outdated compared with Buthelezi's advocacy of free enterprise. The Zulu chief's repeated calls for compromise are now being loudly echoed by Mandela. And Buthelezi's pioneering Natal-KwaZulu Indaba, a formula for black-white power sharing in local government...