Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where a day earlier thousands of Zulus clashed with A.N.C. security guards and police in running gun battles through the city's steel and glass canyons. The violence, said Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi ominously, marked the beginning of "a final struggle to the finish between the A.N.C. and the Zulu nation...
...secret branch of the South African police trained hit squads, instigated massacres and smuggled arms to Zulu extremists in their campaign of violence against African National Congress supporters, a judicial commission claimed. The report, delivered just weeks before South Africa's national elections, alleged that a "horrible network of criminal activity" occurred from 1989 until "the recent past...
...right-wing black and white parties boycotting the elections in an attempt to preserve some of the privileges they had accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, missed the deadline, he indicated he may not work to disrupt the balloting, as many have feared...
...recent story in The Times reported on a new alliance between the Zulu prime minister and the nation's president, who has traditionally held only a ceremonial position. Until recently, the two heads of state had a contentious relationship. The Times reports that on one occasion a while back, the prime minister made fun of the president at a public gathering, causing the latter such shame that he burst into tears, covered his face with his hands, jumped off the dais and ran away...
...leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha 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...