biography
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Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha
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known as Chief Buthelezi
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pronunciation:
[bootuhlayzee]
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| South African Zulu leader and politician, born in Mahlabatini, KwaZulu Natal, E South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal, and in 1953 was installed as chief of the Buthelezi tribe. He was assistant to the Zulu king Cyprian (1953–68) before being elected leader of Zululand in 1970. He became chief minister of KwaZulu, the black South African homeland, in 1976. He is founder-president of Inkatha, a politico-cultural body which has the aim of achieving a non-racist democratic political system, and which in the 1980s developed paramilitary tendencies. In 1994 he was appointed minister for home affairs in Nelson Mandela's first cabinet. |
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