Transcript: Zulu King Demands South Africa Grant Him Title to Natal

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NEAL CONAN, Host: In South Africa today African National Congress President Nelson Mandela meets his political nemesis, Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The Zulus, in Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party, have been fighting the ANC's Zulu loyalists in Natal Province for nine years. Over 8, 000 people have died so far, and the fighting could escalate as next month's national elections approach. Inkatha refuses to participate in the elections, which the ANC is expected to win. NPR's Ann Cooper visited Natal last month and filed this report on politics in the land of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group.

[Zulus chanting and singing]

ANN COOPER, reporter: ...

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