Word: zulus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition of some 600 South African union, church, cultural, sports and community organizations-called for a boycott of the polls. On election day, 624,000 colored students at more than 70 schools and universities stayed home in protest. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of South Africa's 5.5 million Zulus, the country's largest black ethnic bloc, hinted ominously of possible black reprisals against those who voted. Said he: "We feel betrayed because so many of our colored and Indian brothers and sisters are rushing forward with their tongues hanging out to endorse the white rejection of us." Indeed...
...efforts to make even a modified homelands scheme palatable to blacks, Botha still faces determined opposition from a formidable black spokes man: Gatsha Buthelezi, the leader of 5.5 million Zulus, who form South Africa's largest ethnic bloc. Their territory, called KwaZulu, consists of 29 land fragments in a region otherwise reserved for whites...