Word: mangosuthu
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...political violence that shows no sign of abating. The negotiating process over which Mandela and De Klerk have presided like detached yet querulous gods is, often on the verge of anarchy. Though an election date is set, few in South Africa believe it is written in stone. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the political leader of the Zulu nation, is boycotting the talks, and the new Freedom Alliance, of which he is part, threatens to disrupt the elections. The right-wing Afrikaner Volksfront is calling for an autonomous white homeland and a halt to the election process. No doubt the Nobel committee...
...South Africa's three other provinces. A majority of Natal's whites are of British background and are generally regarded as more liberal on racial issues than Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Moreover, many whites respect the Zulus for their strong tribal loyalty, resourcefulness and reputation as fierce warriors. Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who would probably be the Prime Minister in a racially mixed government, is popular with many whites because he supports capitalism and opposes violence. Such positions have cost him the backing of more militant blacks...
...South Africa, it is the lack of political leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response to the hiv/aids pandemic, structural unemployment and abject poverty. What this country, and indeed the continent, needs is probably a well-balanced combination of the two. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi M.P. President of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ulundi, South Africa Gender Sensitivity for All In the interview with newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [Nov. 28], Time asked, "Is there something extra you bring to the job as a woman?" She responded, "Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes...
...part of his orientation he traveled to Cape Town to meet with the leaders of the new tricameral Parliament. In addition, he, Hawthorne and Photographer Peter Jordan drove through the mountains and valleys of KwaZulu, or Zululand, in the eastern part of the country, to interview its chief minister, Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. Nelan also spoke with government officials in Johannesburg and Pretoria, the administrative capital...
...iron adherence to horrible working conditions in his mines and a migrant-labor system that paid blacks far less than whites. He admitted his failures and, 10 years ago, stepped up efforts to end apartheid, recognizing the A.N.C., funding black education and bringing together Nelson Mandela and Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi just days before the first all-race election, thus averting a civil war (see Eulogy, below...