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Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela at a press conference to announce the entry of the IFP into the first democratic South African elections, April 1994. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

Buthelezi: A political career defined by apartheid ministers and Zulu nationalism

The reasons that such an intelligent, charismatic leader never gained the type of political recognition he craved are rooted in his own core mission in life: to rule a…

King Goodwill Zwelithini’s passing provides a starting point for reflection on the role of senior royal women in Zulu history.

Zulu monarchy: How royal women have asserted their agency and power

Throughout history Zulu women have been involved in politics and governance. Queen Sibongile’s claim to half of Zwelithini estate shows how far that influence stretches

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

Nehawu provincial secretary Andile Zulu said the ITB had refused to recognise the union despite more than 70% of the workforce having signed up as members. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Strike looms at Ingonyama Trust Board

Workers mobilise over unfair labour practices and failure to recognise their trade union

‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’

Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard

Reinstated Ingonyama Trust managers hit with retrenchment notices

The effect of Covid-19 and the land reform department’s freeze of R23-million because the ITB didn’t comply with budget submissions are cited as some of the reasons for the staff…

Tenure insecure: Subsistence farmers on Ingonyama Trust land, of which King Goodwill Zwelithini is the sole trustee, are angered by their permits to occupy being replaced by costly leases. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Justice delayed for residents on trust land

People living on Ingonyama Trust land continue to wait for their rights to be restored

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

AG red flags Ingonyama’s board

The Trust has been hit with an adverse audit finding

Secret details of the land deal that brought the IFP into the 94 poll

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

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Parliament backs move to scrap Ingonyama Trust

Mandla Mandela believes rural land rights have to be recognised

Mkhize told the Mail & Guardian this week that she was “very relieved” by the judgment. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ConCourt backs royal widow’s bid to protect her son’s rights

The dispute has sparked a series of violent protests that have affected the mine’s operations

At present, KwaZulu-Natal pays about R300-million a year to izinduna, who earn about R8?000 a month (Delwyn Verasamy)

Izinduna want their salaries back

The salaries of the nine izinduna from the Nobamba tribal authority were suspended because of a boundary dispute

King Goodwill Zwelithini. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘Zwelithini is not collecting rent, the Ingonyama Trust is’

​King Goodwill Zwelithini has distanced himself from the court action taken against the Ingonyama Trust Board because of its lease programme

King Goodwill ascended to the throne in 1968, after the death of his father, King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon.

Zwelithini asks AfriForum for help to fight land expropriation

The Zulu king has come out in opposition of land expropriation without compensation and says anyone who wants his vote in 2019 must kneel

Luvland’s director, Patrick Meyer, says its stores no longer have movie screens because of the association with ‘glory holes’, which put off women customers (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Battered by the flu … and Shenge

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

Nonkanyiso Chonco: Othered to sustain our public gaze at Zuma

An otherwise anonymous young woman is invisibilized so that the public can retain its focus on the main subject, the former president

The ITB administers nearly three million hectares of tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, its sole trustee.

Letters to the editor: March 16 to 22

Our readers write in about the Ingonyama Trust and what went wrong

Worldwide, the study estimates that a total of $2.4-billion was lost because of internet clampdowns. (Getty)

Mchunu tries to defuse Zulu land row

It’s feared that ditching the Ingonyama Trust Board could plunge the province into violence

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC unity cracks over land issue

Heated debates at the party’s conference saw the resolution watered down to appease moderates

ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress

KZN stands with Zwelithini against dissolving Ingonyama Trust

Premier Willies Mchunu said that the province would "never" support a recommendation aimed at undermining the role of traditional leaders