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...this country, it is I who have brought matters to where they are today." The words of President F.W. de Klerk? Or black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela? No, the speaker at last week's press conference was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 61, the self-confident president of Inkatha, chief minister of KwaZulu and prince of the Zulus...
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...
...there is no single black agenda for postapartheid South Africa, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Natal, where for the past three years the inhabitants of the KwaZulu homeland have been 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...
...majority, with most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country's white political leadership...
...surprisingly, given who drew them up, theIndaba proposals (thus far rejected by the centralgovernment) suggest precisely the kind of outcomethat Huntington advocated in 1981: this is theleading consociational plan for South Africa. Itwould create a regionally autonomous governmentfor a combined Natal Province and Kwazulu, withtwo houses of parliament. One chamber would beelected at large, with universal adult franchise.But the other chamber would be formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would...