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/ 10 February 2009
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday blasted Africa National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema, calling him an ”ill-bred brat”.
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/ 7 February 2009
ANC president Jacob Zuma and IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday encouraged people to take part in the upcoming elections.
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/ 6 February 2009
KZN safety minister Bheki Cele denied provoking an attack between IFP and ANC supporters in Nongoma last weekend, his spokesperson said on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2009
The <em>Mail & Guardian Online</em> took to the streets in Jo’burg on Friday to find out what some of SA’s youth think of ANCYL leader Julius Malema.
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/ 2 February 2009
As political intolerance flares in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the general election, the IFP on Monday blamed police for the attacks in Nongoma.
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/ 13 January 2009
Trust in government and democratic institutions has collapsed and SA is in desperate need of fresh leadership, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says.
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/ 25 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the president of the IFP, outlines the IFP’s.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has thrown its weight behind Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s rejection of a merger proposal by the African National Congress.
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday he had approached Jacob Zuma to intervene in the deteriorating relations between the two parties.
The election fodder was wheeled out for a photo-opportunity at the Inkatha Freedom Party’s offices in downtown Durban this week.
Compelling reasons need to be provided by the Inkatha Freedom Party to ensure the support of voters, leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday.
The daughter of Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was killed in a car crash near Melmoth on Sunday.
South African progressive forces must urgently reopen discussions on racism and xenophobia, argues Horace Campbell.
The African National Congress may be in office in KwaZulu-Natal, but they are not in control, said the Inkatha Freedom Party’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Among the many accolades showered on Nelson Mandela at a joint sitting of Parliament on Friday were some shining examples of his sense of humour.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is arranging a series of protests to stop the use of a grade 12 history book it describes as ”biased propaganda … poisoning the minds of children”. National protest organiser Albert Mncwango said on Tuesday that the book, titled In Search of History, is currently being used by schools throughout South Africa.
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/ 8 February 2008
The African National Congress parliamentary caucus was full of praise on Friday for President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address, while opposition parties expressed optimism about the future of the Scorpions detective unit following the president’s address.
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/ 7 February 2008
Despite an undertaking by President Thabo Mbeki, the South African government continues to undermine traditional leaders, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Thursday. Buthelezi accused the government of paying ”lip-service” to the African renaissance programme.
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/ 25 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has lashed out at a popular soap opera actress for claiming the ANC murders its opponents, and is considering legal action against her. The actress, Winnie Ntshaba, who plays Khethiwe in the soap opera Generations, was speaking at an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) gathering.
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/ 23 January 2008
Hard labour for hardened convicts was one of the proposals presented at the launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) Purpose, Vision and Values Programme in Durban on Wednesday. Addressing the issue of crime in the country, the IFP’s Stan Larkan told the more than 3 000 delegates that ”hard labour needs to be introduced”.
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/ 11 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) needs to get back to the business of government, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. He said politicians might all be talking in hushed tones about competing centres of power, but most South Africans ”are fretting about rising food prices and high interest rates”.
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/ 18 December 2007
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Jacob Zuma is the new president of the African National Congress. The announcement was greeted by an outpouring of joy and ecstatic cheering by ANC delegates at the party’s conference in Polokwane shortly before 9pm on Tuesday. Thabo Mbeki received 1 505 votes and Zuma received 2 329.
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/ 14 December 2007
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A Jacob Zuma-led African National Congress will have a major impact in KwaZulu-Natal, analysts and politicians in the province said on Friday. They agreed the ANC’s popularity in the province would increase at the expense of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) if Zuma was elected the party’s new leader in Polokwane next week.
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/ 11 November 2007
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) commitment to gender equality has never been tokenistic and remains a genuine priority, said party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday. He said he believes that for all people to be truly free, women must attain their freedom as provided by the Constitution.
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/ 2 November 2007
Former anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman has not been given the recognition she deserves in the new South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. In a tribute to Suzman ahead of her 90th birthday next week, he said she had tirelessly used her position as MP during the Sixties and Seventies to break the apartheid mould.
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/ 31 October 2007
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.
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/ 26 October 2007
The sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZ) government in Vryheid earlier this week, which was aimed at ”taking parliament to the people”, was a scandal, said Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Friday. ”It is scandalous for parliamentarians to hold a glitzy imbizo [meeting] to tell the electorate what a fabulous job they are doing,” he said.
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/ 24 October 2007
A case of assault has been opened with the police in Vryheid on Tuesday after a daughter of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was struck by chairs during a KwaZulu-Natal legislature session. African National Congress and IFP leaders clashed over issues of service delivery moments before the chair throwing occurred.
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/ 23 October 2007
The Inkatha Freedom Party and the Democratic Alliance on Tuesday boycotted a sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) legislature in Vryheid. The boycott follows an incident on Monday when chairs were thrown during the sitting of the legislature, which is being held as part of the KwaZulu-Natal government’s policy of ”taking the government to the people”.
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/ 15 October 2007
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday announced that he would not be available for re-election in 2009. Delivering his keynote address during the party’s general conference in Ulundi, Buthelezi unexpectedly told delegates that he would step down in 2009.
New evidence shows IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi approved paramilitary activities aimed at undermining the 1994 election. Ivor Powell reports.
The Zulu king may have elbowed Mangosuthu Buthelezi off the throne, but the Inkatha leader has not given up the fight, writes Farouk Chotia.