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...white or black, who can bring about a peaceful end to the hated apartheid system. This very prominence makes him a figure of suspicion and even derision among many militant blacks, who dismiss him as a puppet of the Pretoria government. Even so, all sides agree that the Zulu chief is likely to play a pivotal role in the future of the country...
There is, however, growing debate within South Africa's black community about how to achieve those aims. A crowd of about 70,000, mostly Zulus, gathered in a Durban stadium to launch the United Workers Union of South Africa. The Zulu leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, criticized the other unions for their calls for economic sanctions against the government. Said Buthelezi: "There are people who want to abuse workers by using them to destabilize the economy. Whoever rules in South Africa in another decade or two will need the wealth, which can only be created by a stable economy...
...same evening, Botha appeared on television channels that broadcast in the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu languages and told their predominantly black viewers, "The time has come for us South Africans to join together to negotiate the structures that we want." From its headquarters in neighboring Zambia, however, the A.N.C. dismissed Botha's overtures, which it said demonstrated that he was "committed to the maintenance of white-minority domination...
Later in the week, at least 42 people were killed outside Durban in yet another resurgence of fighting between Zulu and Pondo tribesmen. Thousands more were left homeless as fire spread through the shantytown where the Pondos live. Since Christmas, more than 100 people have died in clashes between the groups over jobs and housing. Police officials arrested 480 people after the latest outbreak and seized truckloads of weapons, including spears and homemade guns...
...Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...