An accomplished orator, historian and custodian of Zulu tradition and culture, Buthelezi was perhaps one of the most contradictory figures in South African politics
After completing his school education, Buthelezi attended the University of Fort Hare, where he joined theShenge, the honorific clan name by which he was known, completed his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Natal, working briefly as an administration clerk for the department of native affairs.
In terms of the policy, black South Africans were stripped of their citizenship and given that of the “independent” bantustans, a move which was rejected by the ANC and other liberation movements. A plan to incorporate townships around Durban, including Chesterville and Lamontville, into the bantustan in the early 1980s was fiercely rejected by their residents, who successfully opposed the attempt to force them to accept KwaZulu government rule., an internal ally of the ANC, in 1983, sparking a decade of state-sponsored violence that continued into the early days of democracy.
When the negotiations process between the ANC and the former regime began in 1990, Buthelezi rebranded Inkatha as the IFP and lobbied for a federalist dispensation, allying the party with right-wing ones in a bid for greater self-determination.which today administers nearly three million hectares of traditionally controlled land on behalf of the Zulu monarch.
During this time Buthelezi acted as president of the country on several occasions in the absence of Mandela and his deputy,, infamously authorising the month-long military intervention in neighbouring Lesotho during one such absence in September 1998. During this time Buthelezi became the chairperson of the national house of traditional leaders, a job that allowed him to maintain his links with amakhosi in KwaZulu-Natal, one of the pillars of his consolidation of power from the 1970s.King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
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