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Article: SOUTH AFRICA: POLITICAL TUG-O-WAR OVER TRADITIONAL CHIEFS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- August 21, 1995
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Gumisai Mutume
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-21-1995
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, Aug. 21 (IPS) -- South Africa's
traditional chiefs have been propelled to the center of a political
tug-o-war between President Nelson Mandela's Government of National
Unity (GNU) and the provincial administration of Kwazulu Natal.
The latest twist in the conflict, which is really between the
African National Congress (ANC), the main party in the GNU, and the
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), which dominates the Kwazulu Natal
provincial government, has to do with who pays provincial chiefs
-- and thus controls them.
The issue came up yesterday at an "imbizo" (gathering of the
Zulu nation) which brought together ...
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