Buthelezi gets blamed for former ANC and IFP bloodshed in KZN
According to former KZN premier, if the now IFP leader hadn’t left the ANC Youth League, decades ago, the political violence at the time could have been avoided
Had IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi not left the ANC Youth League‚ the bloodshed between the ANC and IFP in KwaZulu-Natal could have been avoided.This was part of the hard-hitting testimony given by former KwaZulu-Natal premier and ex-ANC provincial chairman Senzo Mchunu at the Moerane Commission into political violence on Wednesday morning.Mchunu said the violence in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s‚ which killed thousands‚ could also have been averted had more attention been paid, adding that Buthelezi could have been a central figure in preventing bloodshed in what became known as the "killing fields" of the Midlands."The fact of the matter is that there was blood and bodies in this province. The only way we could‚ perhaps‚ have avoided that would have been Inkosi Buthelezi admitting that‚ at one stage‚ having been part of the ANC — at some point he was a member of the Youth League of the ANC — perhaps admitting that he abandoned the revolutionary liberation movement for some reasons. ...
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