Despite deep reservations about working within the bantustan system, the ANC in exile took a strategic decision to encourage the development of the fledgling Inkatha movement. Accordingly, the ANC held discussions with Prince Buthelezi and encouraged him to revive Inkatha ka Zulu, a Zulu cultural movement that had been set up in 1928 by the Zulu monarch of the time, King Solomon ka DiniZulu, and subsequently aborted. Their Mission To pursue the aims and objectives of the black struggle for liberation. Those who escaped the State swoop went underground or fled into involuntary exile. The IFP pledges itself to ensure that in a democratic and free South Africa, traditional communities will constitute a permanent feature of civil society with the full right to participate in development and upliftment of their lives.
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