Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

One gain has been an unlikely tactical alliance with Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi of the conservative Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced on 20 January...

Inkatha also split: National Chairwoman Zanele Magwaza-Msibi formed her own National Freedom Party after veteran leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi refused to step down...

The Inkatha Freedom Party has split with senior members in KZN complaining about long-time leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s refusal to make way for new blood...

Inkatha cannot move far beyond its KZN base; its leader Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi is near the end of his career and without him the party looks set to collapse or fragment...

Yet apart from Bantu Holomisa and Mangosuthu Buthelezi most of these black Bantustan leaders have faded leaving their supporters without political homes...

Should Inkatha lose it means the end of the career of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and perhaps of his party too...

The old warhorse of Zulu politics Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) will be fighting his last political battle...

Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi made an urgent court application to order the government to issue a visa 'in the nearest future'...

Its leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi told its national conference (13-14 October) that he would not stand for re-election in 2009 although he said many IFP supporters had portrayed him as clinging on to power...

Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and others said it 'obliterated the powers and functions of traditional leaders'...