Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

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...

More darkly Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi warns that the ANC risks re-igniting the struggle that killed thousands of people in kwaZulu-Natal in the early 1990s and nearly scuppered the 1994 elections...

The ministers who criticised Mbeki's stand included Trevor Manuel (Finance) Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Home Affairs) and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma (Foreign Affairs formerly Health)...

Mbeki may also try driving the Home Affairs Minister Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi into the wilderness calculating that Inkatha can no longer cause mass violence in KwaZulu-Natal...

The partnership should include at least the ANC NNP and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province plus 'ideally' the Democratic Party...

In 1992 Hunter as a lobbyist went to the Bophuthatswana 'homeland' KwaZulu (as a friend of Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party) and Mozambique (as guest of the Mozambique Institute which lobbied for Afonso Dhlakama's Resistência Nacional Moçambicana)...

Heading the effort is the redoubtable Kenyan Professor Washington Okumu who made headlines when he persuaded Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Inkatha to participate in South Africa's first free elections in 1994...

His main political achievement has been that as a Zulu he was instrumental in ending the civil strife in KwaZulu-Natal between the ANC and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party...

Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party still a 'partner' in the ANC-led government showed that its support remains rock-solid in rural KZN where it won most of the local and district councils...