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Inkatha Freedom Party
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Inkatha Freedom Party

Political party in South Africa consisting largely of the Zulu. It originated in 1924 as a cultural movement under King Dinizulu. His grandson, Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, revived it in 1974 as a political party after breaking with the African National Congress (ANC). Under Buthelezi, Inkatha advocated a struggle against apartheid but a willingness to accept power-sharing arrangements short of majority rule. From the late 1980s Inkatha and ANC followers were regularly involved in bloody clashes with strong ethnic (Zulu v. non-Zulu) overtones. In 1991 the white South African government admitted that it had secretly subsidized Inkatha.



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The 1994 political settlement between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party, in which the ANC in effect conceded the ill-begotten IFP victory, also resulted in a recognition--however begrudgingly--of the political salience of tribalism in rural areas of the country.
Custom and the politics of sovereignty in South Africa by Crais, Clifton / Journal of Social History
King Solomon ka Dinuzulu began the Inkatha Movement (8) in 1920 as an attempt both to unite the Zulu-speaking people culturally and socially and to re-empower the Zulu royal house politically.
Borders of beads: questions of identity in the beadwork of the ... by Boram-Hays, Carol / African Arts
What if the potentially disaffected ethnic party (the Zulu-dominated Inkatha, led by Chief Buthelezi) got together with the hugely influential and powerful white business interests and managed to persuade the unions to break with the ANC?
Africanism: good for Africa? will new leadership emerge? by Chatteris, Chris / Commonweal
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