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Also distorted in the media is Inkatha, whose primary membership consists of Zulu speaking people in Natal. The Zulus are by far the largest "tribe" in South Africa, yet American reports consistently accuse this group of being manipulated by the white supremicist regime...
More than 700 people have died in the townships around Johannesburg since fighting broke out in mid-August, largely between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and Zulus belonging to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha movement. Last week the bloodshed reached a numbing climax, when black men rampaged through a Soweto-bound commuter train with guns, pangas and knives, killing at least 26 people. The violence poses a threat to the fundamental change promised by President F.W. de Klerk, whose efforts to dismantle apartheid nonetheless achieve an important milestone next week when he meets with President Bush...
...have brought matters to where they are today." The words of President F.W. de Klerk? Or black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela? No, the speaker at last week's press conference was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 61, the self-confident president of Inkatha, chief minister of KwaZulu and prince of the Zulus...
...least Mandela appears to understand, Buthelezi cannot be wished away. He has built up a solid constituency, though it is less representative than he would admit. Most of Inkatha's estimated 1.7 million members are Zulus residing in the KwaZulu homeland within Natal. And some of Buthelezi's policies make sense. Mandela's adherence to socialism seems outdated compared with Buthelezi's advocacy of free enterprise. The Zulu chief's repeated calls for compromise are now being loudly echoed by Mandela. And Buthelezi's pioneering Natal-KwaZulu Indaba, a formula for black-white power sharing in local government...
Smoke billows from burning houses in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in Natal province, where at least 39 die in clashes among feuding Zulus. In the town of Welkom in the Orange Free State, a black mob surrounds a minibus, hacks to death the six black occupants and sets fire to the vehicle. In the southern Transvaal township of Sebokeng, police open fire on a crowd of 50,000 people protesting high rents, killing perhaps eleven. In Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, war erupts among black taxi drivers, leaving at least 25 dead and scores injured...