From the M&G Archives: Buthelezi, the King’s Hand

Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the Ingonyama Trust was not created in a secret deal to ensure his participation in the 1994 election

The IFP’s constitution provides that the nomination of national office bearers be approved by the branches. This was not done for its new president

A sweetheart deal. This is how the Ingonyama Trust has been repeatedly described

The nonagenarian MP is finally calling it a day and putting his faith in the precocious IFP caucus

The Inkatha Freedom Party hopes to benefit from the demise of two other parties in KwaZulu-Natal

As witnesses struggle through the Zondo commission, Zuma parties on with old foes

As the wind threatens his feathered headdress, Buthelezi is talking like it’s 1993. I’d far rather be sick in bed, thank you

The museum honouring Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, elides the main ingredient – truth

The party’s veteran leader has backed an outsider to succeed him, sparking possible dissension

Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s reign as the leader of the IFP has finally ended

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) sought the greatest possible protection of human rights and the strongest possible constitutional democracy.

As the 2014 election campaign begins, the propaganda machine is back in overdrive, says Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

The Inkatha Freedom Party and the National Freedom Party have been engaging in talks in order to quell the violence between their supporters.

A disillusioned policeman blew the whistle on police funding of Inkatha to <i>Guardian</i> correspondent David Beresford.

The IFP has been divided by a succession battle to replace Buthelezi, made more acute by the party’s poor showing in last year’s national general election.

Tensions appear to be rising within the party following its dismal showing at the polls last month.

Mario Oriani-Ambrosini has been IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s special adviser since the early Nineties, often at taxpayers’ expense.

Jacob Zuma’s Zuluness hurts IFP fortunes in KwaZulu-Natal. Niren Tolsi reports.

Niren Tolsi spoke to IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi about how he views his chances in the coming poll.

As IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi threatens to challenge a new KwaZulu-Natal law in court, the provincial government has released correspondence showing that only last year he demanded that same law be enacted. The law in question will make the position of chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal House of Traditional Leaders permanent, and Buthelezi will have to choose between his position as part-time chair of the house and his job as a national MP.

Like the elephant on its crest, there was a degree of dimorphism about the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at its draft policy launch recently. Its past, especially the party’s role in the internecine violence of the 1980s and 1990s, was reshaped towards absolution during a narrative history kicked off by Generations actress Winnie Ntshaba.

The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.

A race for succession is taking shape in the IFP with progressive members of the party’s youth wing calling for it to formulate a succession plan ahead of the anticipated resignation of president Mangosuthu Buthelezi when his term ends in 2009. Buoyed by a belief that the term ending in 2009 might be Buthelezi’s last as party president reformists within the party and its youth wing have begun lobbying for a deputy president.

The IFP goes to its national general conference to take stock of its declining fortunes and formulate a turnaround strategy to attract the ”sophisticated urban voter”. The NGC is the party’s highest decision-making body. For the first time in the party’s 31year history the NGC of 100 members will be elected by delegates rather than being anointed by IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s decision to subject his leadership to scrutiny, at a hastily convened special conference on Saturday, amounts to little more than a tactical move to entrench his position until the 2009 election. Any challenge to his presidency has been widely dismissed.

A confidential Inkatha Freedom Party discussion paper, which calls for a change in the party’s old guard leadership, has been leaked to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> in the week in which national chairperson Ziba Jiyane was given his marching orders because of his drive to revolutionise the dying party.

National chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ziba Jiyane has lashed out at party members who are ”fighting to undermine” him, and has branded the IFP youth brigade’s recent attack on him as ”a pack of lies”. This is the latest salvo in an acrimonious leadership tussle plaguing the party.

Jaspreet Kindra The Inkatha Freedom Party is positioning itself alongside the Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal in an attempt to twist the arm of the African National Congress on the amakhosi issue. Apparently the IFP is hoping to force the ANC to enhance the status of the amakhosi in a Municipal Structures Act amendment likely to […]

New evidence shows IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi approved paramilitary activities aimed at undermining the 1994 election. Ivor Powell reports.

King Goodwill Zwelethini wants to restore relations with a senior prince who has rivalled Mangosuthu Buthelezi for 26 years, reports Farouk Chothia ZULU King Goodwill Zwelithini wants an urgent meeting with a senior prince who is Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezis rival for the post of traditional prime minister to the monarch. Sources close […]