Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chaos and violence that threatened to overwhelm the process early in the week had largely subsided by Thursday, as government police announced the arrest of more than 30 white supremacists charged with 21 bombing deaths. Voting was extended to a fourth day in six rural areas, including the Zulu stronghold in Natal province. "It's like the birth of a baby," exulted Linda Khaba, a local magistrate. "Problems, anxiety...
...ballots or the invisible ink used to mark the hands of those who had already made their choice. The ballots, printed weeks ago, did not include the last entry in the race, the Inkatha Freedom Party, and had to be updated with paste-on stickers; to ensure fairness, Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi demanded a fourth day of voting. While exasperated thousands waited, election workers gave puzzled first timers impromptu lessons in how to mark a ballot. Mandela said some of the ballot shortages looked like outright "sabotage," and he too called for another day of polling. At last the election...
...broad, beaming grin is one of his trademarks, but Nelson Mandela thinks it makes him look silly. At 75 and soon to achieve his lifelong dream, he feels he must project a more dignified image. But his struggle to restrain the smiles failed last week as Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi finally agreed to end his Inkatha Freedom Party's boycott of the country's first all-race parliamentary elections. The agreement, said a jubilant Mandela, "is a leap forward for peace...
Then, only seven days before the polls were to open, the Zulu leader suddenly announced he had "decided to make compromises to avoid a great deal more bloodshed and carnage." Buthelezi dropped his demand for an autonomous province that he could dominate and settled for constitutional recognition of the Zulu kingdom...
...Zulu nationalist leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi canceled his boycott of South Africa's first all-race elections this week. In return, Buthelezi secured a guarantee that the largely ceremonial Zulu monarchy will be allowed to continue and that remaining constitutional differences on the powers of regions will be mediated internationally after the elections. Hopes for a peaceful ballot dimmed over the weekend when two African National Congress workers were killed and party headquarters in Johannesburg were devastated by a bomb...