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Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.


— Mangosuthu Buthelezi


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Though his appointment in the government of national unity was a kind of catharsis the Zulu King openly lambasted Buthelezi and told many members of the ruling party that he was like Mandela because for 24 years of KwaZulu government he could not operate freely. The declaration was endorsed by several chief ministers of the black homelands including Cedric Phatudi (Lebowa) Lucas Mangope (Bophuthatswana) and Hudson Nisanwisi (Gazankulu). The meeting that was held in London between the two organisations did not succeed in ironing out differences.

Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi (born 27 August 1928) is the former prime minister of Zululand and South African Zulu politician who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in 1975. His praise name is Shenge. In 1964 he played King Cetshwayo kaMpande (his own maternal great-grandfather) in the film Zulu.

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