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  Mangosuthu Buthelezi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mangosuthu was born on August 27, 1928, in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu-Natal, to Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo kaDinizulu, the sister of King Solomon kaDinuzulu.
Buthelezi inherited the chieftainship of the large Buthelezi tribe in 1953 (a position he still holds today), though not without controversy — his older brother Mceleli would have taken the post if he had not run foul with the police.
In 1970, Buthelezi was appointed leader of the KwaZulu territorial Authority and in 1976 became chief minister of the semi-independent Bantustan of KwaZulu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mangosuthu_Buthelezi   (506 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - politics/parliament
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Minister of Home Affairs, says a lack of funding in his department is hampering the production of desired outputs.
Buthelezi has encouraged the IEC to ensure that these eligible voters are registered and are entered on the voters' roll in order to participate in the elections.
Buthelezi said the Refugee Act of 1998, which has far-reaching implications for the handling of refugees in South Africa, came into effect in April 2000 and most of the teething problems in implementing this act have now been sorted out.
www.sabcnews.com /politics/parliament/0,2172,4781,00.html   (602 words)

  
 Southern African Migration Project
Buthelezi has requested that if the Constitutional Court finds in favour of the previous ruling, it could suspend the order of invalidity for a year to allow for the correction of the regulations and to avoid disrupting the immigration process.
Buthelezi warned that the cost of the mooted national identification system was set to skyrocket after an analysis of the project showed some of the technological solutions and project features being pursued were not correct.
Buthelezi opposed the application on the basis that he was allowed under the law to make "interim immigration regulations" until he had constituted an immigration advisory board.
www.queensu.ca /samp/ImmigrationBillComments/Regulations/ImmReg.htm   (21303 words)

  
 Inkatha Freedom Party - Biographies & Photo Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, MP Mangosuthu Buthelezi was born in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu on 27 August 1928 and is the son of Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu, the sister of King Solomon ka Dinuzulu.
In 1970, Dr. Buthelezi was asked by the KwaZulu Assembly to accept the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Zulu Territorial Authority, a position to which he was unanimously elected by members of that body, despite having for some time succeeded in delaying the imposition of this structure by the South African Government.
Buthelezi is a strong proponent of African humanism known as Ubuntu because of the value it places on the quality of human life and human relationships.
www.ifp.org.za /General/biograph.htm   (301 words)

  
 Prominent People - Buthelezi, Mangosuthu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ashpenaz Nathan Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, the political leader of South Africa’s most well-known ethnic group, the Zulu, was born in Mahlabathini, KwaZulu on 27 August 1928 as the son of Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu, the sister of King Solomon ka Dinuzulu.
Initially Buthelezi was an activist within the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC), but in 1975 revived Inkatha ye Nkuleleko ye Sizwe (popularly known as Inkatha), a Zulu cultural organization, and acting as an anti-apartheid and Zulu nationalist organization.
Buthelezi often called for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, but his disagreement to sanctions increased his isolation from the ANC.
www.prominentpeople.co.za /people/51.php   (525 words)

  
 Zululand EcoAdventures - Mangosuthu Buthelezi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Buthelezi lived much of his life working to obtain his mission of ending the separation of races.
Buthelezi later switched to Fort Hare University College.(Otfinoski 39) At Fort Hare University the chief began to study history.
The first controversy occurred when Buthelezi boycotted the elections on the basis that the chief was not allowed three representatives.(Meredith 427) The constitution caused the second dispute.
www.eshowe.com /article/articleview/67/1   (945 words)

  
 AEGiS-Reuters: South Africa's Buthelezi says AIDS kills second child
Buthelezi, head of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), is one of the few high profile figures to talk candidly about the disease that affects 10 percent of the population.
Buthelezi's son died of AIDS complications in April at the age of 53.
Buthelezi was left out of Mbeki's cabinet after the April general elections, drawing a line under an uneasy 10-year relationship between the IFP and the ANC in national government.
www.aegis.com /news/re/2004/RE040808.html   (528 words)

  
 Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi was born on 27 August 1928 into the Zulu royal family.
Buthelezi studied History and Bantu administration at the Fort Hare University in 1948.
After the release of all political prisoners and the formation of the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA), Buthelezi represented the Inkatha Freedom Party in the negotiation for a democratic South Africa.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/buthelezi-mg.htm   (720 words)

  
 AfricaFiles | Royal watching in Buthelezi country
Buthelezi then occupied the chair recently vacated by Sfiso and, while breathing heavily, was wired for sound to launch an attack on the royal spokesman.
It seemed that Goodwill and Buthelezi were inseparable, and that all the efforts by the ANC in the years leading up to the elections to gain the benefits that would accrue to the Congress, of a `neutral' monarch, had failed forever.
Buthelezi took this, quite correctly, as a slight on his claim of prime ministership - if there had been an invitation it was to have gone through his office.
www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3968   (2311 words)

  
 Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi stands as a symbol of courage, hard work, and bravery for helping to lead the fight against apartheid.
During the chief's days in the ANC Youth League, Buthelezi became friends with Nelson Mandela and other leaders in the ANC.(Finlayson 89) When Buthelezi reestablished Inkatha, the leaders of the ANC considered Inkatha a useful ally in the fight against apartheid.
Once Mandela was released from jail Buthelezi was Mandela’s only rival for leadership among South African fls.(Mermelstein 108) Buthelezi and Mandela decided to meet to unite the fl followers toward the common cause of ending apartheid.
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/02/linge/linge.htm   (1010 words)

  
 AEGiS-SAPA: Break down silence over Aids: Buthelezi
Buthelezi said he had found in his own journey of coming to terms with the impact of Aids upon the people he loved most, a deeper insight into the meaning of life, love and death.
Buthelezi said there were times when the Church needed to speak out when political action faltered, such as in the present war against Aids.
Buthelezi said he believed God had called us all alike, be we students, taxi drivers or public representatives, to use our positions to tear down the walls of stigma and silence surrounding the HIV/Aids pandemic.
www.aegis.com /news/sapa/2004/SA041201.html   (803 words)

  
 MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI - A RESEARCH SERVICE
Walter Felgate, a long-time colleague and confidante of Buthelezi is making this source material available to researchers and other interested parties to help them gain a factual, in-depth understanding about the man and the controversial role he has played in the transition of South Africa from apartheid to democracy.
He was also privy to the dealings Buthelezi had with successive South African Governments in his attempts to make Inkatha the natural successor to the exiled ANC whom he saw as heading for failure.
Buthelezi and his political role in South Africa from apartheid to democracy is a very important window into one of the 20th Century phenomenal chapters in the history of democracy.
www.webspawner.com /users/walterf   (689 words)

  
 Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Originally an activist within the African National Congress (ANC), Buthelezi revived Inkatha, a Zulu cultural group, in 1975 as an antiapartheid and Zulu nationalist organization; it later became the Inkatha Freedom party.
In the 1980s he became a prominent critic of the ANC and its support for guerrilla warfare and international sanctions against apartheid.
Buthelezi was named home affairs minister in Nelson Mandela’s government, a position he retained during President Thabo Mbeki’s first term.
www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Buthelez.html   (255 words)

  
 Black vs White is Not the Problem, South Africa's Conservative Black Leader Tells Mandela
Last week in an address by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Minister of Home Affairs and President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, the ANC and Nelson Mandela was called to task over their determined effort to continue framing South Africa's problems as entirely caused by the white population.
Buthelezi, a member of the Zulu royal family and a well-educated leader, is basically telling Parliament that the country can no longer hide its real problems by continuing to blame white people for everything that has gone wrong.
Buthelezi went on to say, "Let us open our eyes to the fact that low-level criminality has become so pervasive that it is perceived as having become acceptable and it is often ignored because it is overshadowed by the wave of escalating major crimes such as rape, murder and sexual abuse of children.
www.bannerofliberty.com /OS6-98HL/6-8-1998.2.html   (2996 words)

  
 South African Inkatha Freedom Party Leader Buthelezi Announces Second Child Dead of AIDS-Related Causes - The Body
South African Inkatha Freedom Party Leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday at the funeral of his 48-year-old daughter Princess Mandisi Sibukakonke said that she died from AIDS-related causes, Agence France-Presse reports.
Buthelezi, who previously has been critical of the government's slow response to HIV/AIDS, has said that HIV/AIDS is the biggest challenge facing the country (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 5/3).
Buthelezi also "questioned" the role of the government and "ordinary South Africans" in the fight against the disease, the South African Press Association reports.
www.thebody.com /kaiser/2004/aug9_04/buthelezi_aids.html   (502 words)

  
 A moment in time in South Africa - Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi - Interview Interview - Find Articles
Conquered by the British in 1887, and then incorporated after the Boer War into first the Union and then the Republic of South Africa (in 1910 and 1961, respectively), the Zulu tribe into which Buthelezi was born as a hereditary leader was one of many peoples forced into the master plan of apartheid.
A judge appointed to investigate the violence between the IFP and the ANC found that Buthelezi was being armed by top-ranking white police officers (a finding Buthelezi vehemently denied).
Buthelezi invited me to his office in Ulundi, KwaZulu, at the start of the election campaign last January to talk.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n6_v24/ai_16009082   (924 words)

  
 South African Inkatha Freedom Party Leader Buthelezi Says Son Died of AIDS-Related Causes - The Body
Buthelezi, who last week lost his position as home affairs minister after receiving few votes in the recent national elections, said, "I reach out to all the other people who have died of HIV/AIDS.
In an interview with Reuters last year, Buthelezi said that HIV/AIDS was the biggest challenge facing the country (Reuters, 5/2).
An aide to Buthelezi said he may have made the remarks because "[t]his is the first time that he can really push the envelope because he was always beholden to the ANC presidency and before that to the homeland system of apartheid," according to the Sunday Argus/Independent Online.
www.thebody.com /kaiser/2004/may3_04/buthelezi_aids.html   (600 words)

  
 AEGiS-DMG: Buthelezi Draws a Line
Buthelezi was not alone in using the debate on President Thabo Mbeki's state of the nation address to appeal to Mbeki, who was listening from the government benches.
Buthelezi implicitly brushed aside government pleas of infrastructural unreadiness for nevirapine rollout, saying that the 40% infection rate among pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal amounted to a medical emergency.
In his speech, Buthelezi slapped DA leader Tony Leon on the wrist for his "abrasive" debating style, saying Leon was not sufficiently sensitive to the collective psychology of fl South Africans "who have been talked down to for centuries".
www.aegis.com /news/dmg/2002/MG020218.html   (1066 words)

  
 ANC-KZN AMUSED BY DR MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI’s CAMPAIGNING ISSUES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The truth is that after the 2004 elections, the ANC gave Dr Buthelezi and the IFP a political lifeline by inviting them to be part of the provincial broad-based government.
Buthelezi is deliberately deciding to be economical with truth on how the ANC actually became part of the then IFP-led provincial government in 1994.
The ANC is saddened by a glaring fact that Dr Buthelezi and his party have no substantive issues to raise for the forthcoming elections to woo voters.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/2006/pr0123b.html   (346 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Buthelezi not deceitful, says judge
The court saga started when Buthelezi hastily promulgated the regulations while they were still under discussion by the cabinet, some members of whom considered them unconstitutional.
Donan alleged the court was misled in that the judge who had earlier granted the order-by-consent had not been informed of the full context in which the consent had been reached.
The judge said although Buthelezi had had reservations about the cabinet process, he had nevertheless promulgated the regulations under the bona fide belief that he was compelled by court order to do so.
iafrica.com /news/sa/316530.htm   (423 words)

  
 Buthelezi's son dies of AIDS - World - www.smh.com.au
Pretoria: The leading South African opposition politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced at the weekend that his son had died of AIDS.
Mr Buthelezi's admission before thousands of mourners, including political and community leaders, was a typically forthright stand by the politician who has been critical of President Thabo Mbeki's quiet policy towards AIDS.
Mr Buthelezi spoke days after he was axed from Mr Mbeki's cabinet and his Inkatha party ended its 10-year alliance with the ruling African National Congress.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/03/1083436543133.html?from=storyrhs   (397 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 70, has been South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs since 1994.
He is the son of Chief Mathole Buthelezi and Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu, the sister of King Solomon ka Dinuzulu.
Trained as a lawyer, Buthelezi inherited a chieftainship of the large Buthelezi tribe in 1953 - a position he maintains today.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/jan-june99/safrica_candidates/buthelezi_ifp.html   (163 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online:
IFP President [Mangosuthu] Buthelezi’s strategy was to force Jiyane to show his hand before the annual general conference in September so that he has a full month to deal with him,” said the NEC member, who asked not to be named.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi apparently decided to take advantage of comments made by Jiyane at a Durban IFP Youth Brigade rally over the weekend, where he said the IFP had suffered electoral losses because voters would not trust a party that practised “internal dictatorship rather than internal democracy”.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi will appear “untainted and untouched … the unifying father bringing the party together”, said the NEC member.
mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=246877&area=/insight/...   (646 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Buthelezi: South Africa's 'Master brinksman'
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 75, is one of the great survivors of South African politics.
A forceful personality, he was described by one observer as being "capable of switching between unbridled charm and ruthless bellicosity".
Even though he is now out of government, Mangosuthu Buthelezi is likely to retain one of the highest profiles in South Africa.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3669627.stm   (584 words)

  
 Global Challenges | South African Inkatha Freedom Party Leader Buthelezi Announces Second Child Dead of AIDS-Related ...
South African Inkatha Freedom Party Leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday at the funeral of his 48-year-old daughter Princess Mandisi Sibukakonke said that she died from AIDS-related causes,
Buthelezi is "one of the few public figures to speak candidly" about HIV/AIDS, according to
Buthelezi also "questioned" the role of the government and "ordinary South Africans" in the fight against the disease, the
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=25162   (346 words)

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