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Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

Date of Birth: 27 August 1928
Place of Birth: Mahlabathini, KwaZulu


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The race to win

Mangosuthu Buthelezi whose Inkatha Freedom Party is the biggest black party outside the ANC wants an end to affirmative action accusing the ANC of its 'reckless implementation'...


Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system

The DA controls Cape Town and a few other municipalities in the Western Cape and Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) runs some areas of KwaZulu-Natal but the ANC commands absolute majorities in parliament and seven of the nine provincial assemblies and simple majorities in the remaining two...


Women in power

Sisulu chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence from 1995-96 then became Deputy Minister of Home Affairs under Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi...


The ANC's toughest election yet

He then rose to head ANC intelligence and after 1994 took the lead in negotiating a truce between the ANC and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party...


Up close and personal

From the 1970s onwards the IFP under its leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi set itself up as a Zulu nationalist party (with white members) in competition with the ANC...


All eyes on Phumzile

In 2004 Mbeki's first choice for the deputy presidency had been Mangosuthu Buthelezi also Zulu and leader of the traditionalist Inkatha Freedom Party...


Local grumbles

In KZN the showing of Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party was dismal...


Trying the Veep

It recently expelled its popular Chairman Ziba Jiyane who had clashed with party President Mangosuthu Buthelezi...


Corruption and conviction

An overt move into opposition - such as crossing the floor to join the ranks of Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha - would be dangerous for all sides...


Welcome back to the state

In sparkling form Inkatha leader Gatsha Mangosuthu Buthelezi lambasted the ANC government for its concentration of 'everything at the centre' and warned of a resurgence of violence in KwaZulu-Natal as local politicians try to agree on the rules for a 'constitutional monarchy' in the province...

Although the ANC has wooed Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini assiduously it draws the line at accepting a constitutional role for the Zulu nation's traditional Prime Minister: one Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi...


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