Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

Constand Viljoen, leader of the Freedom Front, which has sought to found an Afrikaner homeland, tried in secret talks with Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi last year to draw the Inkatha Freedom Party away from its working alliance with the ANC and into a constellation of parties opposed to the governing party...

Support in Gauteng for Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (AC Vol 40 No 10, Compulsory coalition & Uneasy peace) seems to have collapsed, from 4 per cent five years ago to an estimated 1 per cent now...

The deal, between Thabo Mbeki, President of the African National Congress, and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party, means that the electorate can choose only which party dominates the coalition in the most populous, and the most violence-prone, of South Africa's nine provinces...

But the wily Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, elected as the territory's chief executive officer, had other ideas...

) The concessions, made in favour of the white, coloured and Indian minorities, as well as of secessionists in Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), left the provinces in charge only of planning, licensing, the provision of services and supervision of municipal and city authorities...

Between 16 and 22 September, Mugabe would not take telephone calls about the Lesotho incursion from Acting President Mangosuthu Buthelezi...

The King has repeatedly appealed over Radio Lesotho for peaceful negotiations and acting South African President Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a doughty defender of traditionalism in kwaZulu-Natal, did the same on 17 September...

A high-powered South African delegation was due to visit only two days later, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and including Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi...

Will Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party ally itself with the ANC in return for a promised deputy presidency...

We hear there are tensions between old hand Kriegler and newcomer Mchunu - on top of the friction between the IEC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s Home Affairs Ministry, which thinks it should be running the elections...