Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Efforts by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to mediate the South African political crisis fell apart after Zulu leaders repeated their demand that the nation's all-race elections be postponed. Kissinger's mediation team had hoped to resolve the conflict between African National Congress members and Zulu nationalists, who are demanding a sovereign state and boycotting the April 26-28 election...
...state in South Africa's Natal province continued to mount, with the death toll reaching . 125 for the past week. Two weeks remain before the country's all-race election, but in a Friday summit, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela failed to persuade Zulu leaders to drop their election boycott...
Open conflict with the South African security forces would be self- defeating, but Buthelezi could unleash a newly organized Zulu "self- defense unit" of 5,000 men, and there are thousands of loyal Zulu irregulars who could complicate the elections with dead-of-night raids, assassinations and sabotage. If Buthelezi were to launch such subversion, De Klerk would be likely to fulfill his promise to sweep out the KwaZulu establishment, starting with its chief minister...
With the declaration of emergency, De Klerk has put Buthelezi on the road to political oblivion. The Zulu leader cannot win if he openly defies the security forces, and his refusal to contest the elections hands the A.N.C. a victory, even in Natal, and a bigger majority nationally. When the new constitution goes into effect at the end of this month there will be no KwaZulu and no chief minister. Buthelezi may well end up with many angry supporters, but as a man without a country...
South African President F.W. de Klerk declared a state of emergency in Natal province as his government headed for what may be a violent showdown with Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who continues to threaten a boycott of the April 26-28 elections and to hold out for autonomy from the national government. Rival African National Congress head Nelson Mandela endorsed De Klerk's move. Earlier in the week, a march past A.N.C. headquarters in downtown Johannesburg by members of Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party turned into one of the bloodiest battles in the city's history; on Saturday suspected Zulu...