Veteran South African politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi addressing parliament in 2019. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma Since the 1950s, a system of “petty apartheid” which separated the physical day-to-day ...

This year marks the 46th anniversary of the death of Bantu Stephen Biko, and it seems he is fast fading from the country’s memory. I have often written of the importance of history and memory, not ...

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South African leaders who influenced the ...

The Presidency announced the death of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) founder Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi on Saturday morning, saying he was an outstanding leader in the political and cultural life ...

Although he is a staunch opponent of apartheid, Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi has few friends among black antiapartheid activists in South Africa. The African National Congress, which espouses socialism ...

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions of racist rule. A man of singular ...

Inkosi Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi was one of the most polarising political figures of the 20th century, and his hands dripped with blood. There are only two ways to describe the legacy of the late ...

This was that he would be regarded as an apartheid collaborator who weaponised Zulu tradition and its monarchy in defence of white minority rule — and his own appetite for power. Buthelezi sought to ...

‘Chief with a Double Agenda is not just a book about Buthelezi,’ writes Mandla J Radebe in his introduction to this republished work. ‘It is a book about betrayal, ideology, class collaboration and ...

Leader of Inkatha, the Zulu organization of South Africa, and chief minister of the KwaZulu government, Buthelezi calls for a multiracial, multiparty democracy to replace apartheid through peaceful ...

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the once-feared Zulu nationalist and historic leader of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) which presided over South Africa's deadliest violence ahead of the first all-race elections, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South African ...