Word: natale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAZY SUN SET OVER THE GREEN hills of blood-soaked Natal Province last week, Jabulani Shibe tried to do his part to broker the differences between the African National Congress and its bitter foes in the Inkatha Freedom Party. Shibe, 27, a laborer, joined eight of his neighbors in KwaMashu, a black township near Durban, and visited an Inkatha hostel. Suddenly, a group of Inkatha men drew guns and bundled Shibe and his companions into a minibus. They drove through the darkness to a nearby railroad station, where an armed and angry mob of Inkatha supporters was waiting...
Setting the trend, the Afrikaner Volksfront has a similar, but more institutionalized, bond with Gatsha Buthelezi and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal. Their Freedom Alliance poses a serious threat to the prospect of free and fair elections, a threat no-one could have perceived even a year...
...Freedom Party turned down a last-minute package of concessions from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela intended to avert a threatened boycott of the historic election set for April 26-28. Mandela eased up on A.N.C. demands for strong central authority by offering provincial governments more autonomy. In Natal province, gunmen attacked A.N.C. supporters, killing...
...Crowd of nearly 200 listened to Jeff Radebe, deputy chair of the ANC in Southern Natal, express his faith that the democratic vote will ultimately result in the election of Nelson Mandela as President...
Hopes are high that a political settlement will greatly reduce the potential for black-against-black violence. Since 1986, some 10,000 people have died in an A.N.C.-Inkatha power struggle that in parts of Natal has taken on civil-war proportions. Even assuming the rivalry cools among top leaders, blood feuds, local turf wars, scrambling for scarce jobs, general intolerance and even tribal antipathy could spark continued fighting...