Word: mentz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notes a seasoned member of the press gallery, "new ground is - being broken." This has included actual applause in response to speeches -- no longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
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