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Transcript: Inkatha Originally Organized to Preserve ANC Principles
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- April 19, 1994
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: Mervyn Frost is head of the Department of
Politics at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. He told
us that Inkatha was organized in the '60s when the ANC was banned
and its leaders imprisoned, ostensibly as an organization to preserve
the Zulu culture but really as a political group to support the ANC
inside South Africa.
MERVYN FROST, University of Natal: Its friendship with the ANC lasted
right through the '70s until about 1979 when some tension arose, I
guess because of the strength of Inkatha internally. It threatened
to overshadow the external leadership.
WERTHEIMER: And was it ANC then that split?
Mr. ...