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Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

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


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Sour Mango

President Thabo Mbeki has finally ended the African National Congress's awkward relationship with Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi by leaving him out of the cabinet in the post-election reshuffle on 28 April (AC Vol 45 No 8)...


End of an affair

With the African National Congress set to win a two-thirds majority many ANC supporters questioned the need to remain in coalition with Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party...


Thabo's test

Opposition parties pronounced the 1994 and 1999 elections 'free and fair' but the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (who sits in Mbeki's cabinet while Inkatha has two deputy ministries) now claims that both results were tainted by 'material' fraud...


Foregone conclusion

The leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Mangosuthu Buthelezi highlighted what he called the 'five major crises' ­ HIV/AIDS unemployment crime poverty and corruption ­ and spoke of 'the growing suffering of our rural people'...


Ten years after

This could win it a two-thirds majority and the power to change the constitution also enabling it to capture the only province it doesn't control Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) from Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party...


Struggling to succeed

Mbeki had earmarked the position stripped of real power for the Inkatha Freedom Party boss Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi to placate the Zulu leader and keep the lid on the IFP-ANC conflict in KwaZulu-Natal...


Busy bees

Other guests were Inkatha Freedom Party leader and the Minister of Home Affairs Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi ex-President Frederik Willem de Klerk and Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon (each of these has his own reservations about the BI)...


The right wing explodes

Yet many of the most threatening white right-wingers - such as Clive Derby Lewis (convicted of the murder of ANC luminary Chris Hani) and Mario Oriani-Ambrosini (an advisor to Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and friend of Mafia boss Vito Palazzolo AC Vol 43 Nos 13 & 15) - were not Afrikaners...


Buthelezi replays history

Relations between the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party are at their lowest since the rivals signed a peace deal on the eve of the 1994 elections...


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