IFP leader says ANC owes him an apology relating to internecine wars in KZN
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the ANC has branded him a sell-out, but that the killings in the 1980s and 1990s were perpetrated by both parties
IFP leader Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the ANC owes him an apology for having branding him a sell-out. Buthelezi, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday, told those who gathered at the Durban Exhibition Centre for the celebrations — and repeated it in subsequent interviews on SABC channels — that it is wrong to lay sole responsibility on him and his supporters for the internecine war that claimed more than 20,000 lives in many parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Buthelezi formed the Inkatha Yenkululeko Yesizwe in 1975 as a cultural organisation. It was rebranded a political party and renamed the IFP in the late 1980s not long before its battles with the ANC-supporting United Democratic Front (UDF). Buthelezi said he was urged by then ANC exiled leader Oliver Tambo to start a political organisation inside the country so the struggle could be waged both within the country and outside. He blamed the straining of the relationship between the IF...
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