Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiations were at the breaking point anyway because of those spears and battle-axes. To the A.N.C., at least, they have come to symbolize the black-vs.-black violence that has been tearing the nation's townships apart. Fighting between supporters of the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party and A.N.C. backers has claimed more than 200 lives just this month and at least 1,000 so far in 1991. Archbishop Desmond Tutu voices grief that a weekend body count of 15 dead has come to be considered hearteningly...
A.N.C. leaders charge that white police have failed to prevent or actually fomented Zulu attacks on A.N.C. supporters, allegedly because the ruling Nationalist Party favors Inkatha as a presumably more pliable partner in a postapartheid government. So the supposedly more militant (indeed communist- allied) A.N.C. has been driven into the ironic position of demanding that the white government protect it from its fellow blacks -- starting with a ban on the Zulus' "cultural" weapons. Zulus say tribal tradition requires them to carry the spears, clubs and battle-axes in public, but the A.N.C. charges that they are being used to kill...
Armed with spears, knives, axes and the occasional AK-47, rival supporters of the African National Congress and the Zulu-led Inkatha Freedom Party fought one another day and night in the townships of Johannesburg last week. At least 100 were killed, including two nephews of Nelson Mandela. The struggle between the two groups has escalated this year, and President F.W. de Klerk warned last week that if the violence is not stopped, the country faces civil...
...BEST OF JULUKA (Rhythm Safari). An object lesson in the benefits of / culture shock. Johnny Clegg, a white South African obsessed with Zulu culture, and Sipho Mchunu, a black man infatuated with the rhythm of rock, made seven raving, ravishing Juluka albums between 1979 and 1985. This selection of highlights from that time still has mule-kick energy, a proud social conscience and a sound that's fresher than the day after tomorrow...
...most worrisome trend is the readiness of young rival activists to kill each other. In the province of Natal alone, more than 4,000 people have died since clashes erupted in 1986 between followers of the A.N.C. and the Zulu- based Inkatha movement, headed by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Instead of inspiring a new era of peace, Mandela's return has seen the fighting spread to Soweto and other townships encircling Johannesburg. In 1990 nearly 3,500 were killed in black communal violence, the worst year's toll in modern South African history...