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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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Current home affairs minister and leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, is also cited for his role in the violence which claimed 20,000 lives in the area then known as KwaZulu.
Not for the faint-hearted by Smook, William / For A Change
Last year, for example, President Mandela told audiences in the troubled province of KwaZulu-Natal that the road to peace was for everyone to join the ANC - and the ANC has repeatedly invited the Pan Africanist Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party to join it so as to achieve complete racial (black) unity.
Destroying South Africa's democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation, and ... by Johnson, R.W. / The National Interest
The court's ruling opens the way for South Africa's third most powerful party, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, to rejoin the talks.
SOUTH AFRICA'S HIGH COURT REJECTS NEW CONSTITUTION, RAISES OBJECTIONS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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