ANC-IFP PEACE PACT SIGNED

THE African National Congress and the rival Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party on Tuesday agreed to sign a peace pact in the country’s volatile KwaZulu-Natal province. The peace deal — designed to bring an end to more than a decade of bloody feuding between supporters of the two parties — will be signed in the east coast town of Durban on Friday, the parties said in a statement. Some 12000 people have died in feuding between the ANC and IFP in the province since 1985. ANC spokesman Thabo Masebe said the new peace pact is designed to bring a definitive end to the fighting between the two parties forever. The nature of the pact and its existence will be strongly communicated to each party’s followers.