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...coincidence that Rudolph's exploits parallel those of his defiant forebears. Piet was named for a relative who commanded the cannons in the 1838 battle of Blood River, when the Boers defeated the Zulus and won control of considerable territory. As a boy, Rudolph spent hours listening to tales told by an old soldier who had been blinded by wounds received in the turn-of-the- century Anglo-Boer conflict...
...latest bloodletting began in Thokoza, southeast of Johannesburg, when gunmen opened fire on Zulus headed for an Inkatha rally. The toll: 23 dead. Avenging Zulus held the A.N.C. responsible, and within hours were on the offensive in Thokoza and other townships. Over the next five days, at least 100 more died in clashes that included attacks on commuter buses and trains. The A.N.C. denied involvement, suggesting instead that right-wing white extremists were to blame. That could be true, but many blacks were unconvinced. "It seems we cannot cope with victory," wrote Aggrey Klaaste, editor of the black newspaper...
...press conference arranged by the congress last month, retired Major Nico Basson accused the South African Defense Force of arming Inkatha to stir up tribal hostility. While the army and Inkatha denied the charges, eyewitnesses have seen white policemen escorting Inkatha impis (armed Zulus) from the scene of recent bloody attacks...
...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...
...ruling Nationalist Party favors Inkatha as a presumably more pliable partner in a postapartheid government. So the supposedly more militant (indeed communist- allied) A.N.C. has been driven into the ironic position of demanding that the white government protect it from its fellow blacks -- starting with a ban on the Zulus' "cultural" weapons. Zulus say tribal tradition requires them to carry the spears, clubs and battle-axes in public, but the A.N.C. charges that they are being used to kill its supporters...