If Mangosuthu Buthelezi had not opposed the apartheid state’s plans for an ‘independent’ Zulu kingdom, South Africa’s history would have unfolded very differently.
- Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The king retained his position because undemocratic centralised power is too big a temptation for those who seek to benefit.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi carries extensive accountability for the sectarianism that characterised politics in South Africa before 1994.
