The museum honouring Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, elides the main ingredient – truth
There is a plan to kill newly-elected IFP councillors after the local government elections, says party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
All eyes are on Ulundi to see how the new NFP party fares — and Nkandla, the traditional home of President Zuma, where many residents feel neglected.
A presiding officer was taken in by the police at Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, on Wednesday after marked ballot papers were found at a polling station.
There was a shouting match between IFP and ANC members in front of international election observers at the Holiday Inn in Ulundi on Tuesday afternoon.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of an African National Congress (ANC) member, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Thursday.
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.
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/ 22 December 2007
At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 injured in a collision when a bus ploughed into the trailer of a stationary truck near Estcourt in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on Saturday morning, paramedics and the provincial road traffic inspectorate said. Of those injured, eight were in a critical condition.
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/ 3 September 2005
Floor-crossing, dubbed ”crosstitution”, will lead to the rapid consolidation of a one-party state in South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told the party’s 30th annual conference on Saturday. ”Our democracy is crumbling because those in power do not care,” he said.
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/ 3 September 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party has to find ways of regaining municipalities lost to the ”fraud” of floor-crossing, its 30th annual conference heard in Ulundi on Friday. Top party official Professor Themba Msimang lashed out at what he described as the ”chequebook politics” of the African National Congress.
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It appears it will be a while before the African National Congress is welcomed with open arms into Ulundi, the traditional stronghold of the Inkatha Freedom Party, if Saturday’s response to an ANC election campaign is anything to go by. A large group of IFP supporters attempted to disrupt an ANC meeting in the KwaZulu-Natal town.
Special Report: Elections 2004
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/ 12 October 2003
IFP President Mangosuthu Buthelezi accused the Mail & Guardian newspaper of purveying ANC propaganda ahead of the general elections next year. Buthelezi said the newspaper was diverting attention away from the ruling party by publishing an article under the headline ”Scorpions hunt for Inkatha’s arsenal”.
Scorpions hunt for Inkatha’s guns
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/ 20 January 2003
The son of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC and Zulu royal Prince Gideon Zulu was critically injured in Ulundi on Monday in what the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) called a failed ”assassination attempt” on Prince Zulu’s life.
IFP calls for ‘calm and restraint’
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/ 20 January 2003
The national representative of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Reverend Musa Zondi, has called for ”calm and restraint” among members and supporters of the IFP in the wake of an assassination attempt on Prince Gideon Zulu this morning, in which his son, Prince Mazwi and the driver, Mr Mdlalose, were critically injured.
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/ 15 December 2002
The National Council of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Saturday mandated the party’s chief whip and the premier of KwaZulu-Natal to call an early election in the province.
Pietermaritzburg is set to be the sole seat of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, despite opposition from the Inkatha Freedom.