Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Mangosuthu Buthelezi is the President of the South African Inkatha Freedom Party.DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
Buthelezi was born in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu on 27 August 1928, is the son of Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu, the sister of King Solomon ka Dinuzulu.DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
After completing a university degree at the University of Fort Hare in 1950, Dr. Buthelezi opted for a legal career which was cut short when he inherited the chieftainship of the large Buthelezi tribe in 1953. He is also Undunankulu Ka Zulu. (Traditional Prime Minister).DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
==KwaZulu Homeland==
In 1970, Dr. Buthelezi was asked by the KwaZulu Assembly to accept the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Zulu Territorial Authority, a position to which he was unanimously elected by members of that body.DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
Buthelezi met Irving Brown in Botswana at some point in the early 1970s.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.344.
In 1972 he became Chief Executive Councillor to the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly and from 1976 – April 1994 was the Chief Minister of KwaZulu. He became the President of the Inkatha Freedom Party when it was founded as Inkatha in 1975.DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
In 1982, Buthelezi accepted the AFL-CIO's George Meany Award on behalf of the late Sr Neil Aggett. This event provoked lasting rancour between the AFL-CIO and COSATU.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.349.
In 1991, it was revealed that Buthelezi had accepted funds from the Apartheid regime in Pretoria for his political rallies.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.354.
When Likud loyalist Zvi Gov-Ari was appointed Israeli ambassador to South Africa in 1989, he strengthened ties with Buthelezi and other Bantustan leaders, widely regarded as puppets of the Apartheid regime.Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Random house, 2010, p.217.
In March 1994, there were allegations of joint hit-squad operations between Inkatha and the South African government.
==Majority Rule==
In April 1994, Dr. Buthelezi became the Republic of South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs.DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
The Zulu King, Buthelezi's nephew Goodwill Zwelitini became more independent of Buthelezi after May 1994.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.344.
He has been appointed Acting President on several occasions. He is Chairman of the House of Traditional Leaders (KwaZulu Natal).DR. MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY, Inkatha Freedom Party, accessed 2 March 2012.
==Notes==
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu