Mourners pay tribute to controversial former leader of Inkatha Freedom Party who died last week aged 95
Thousands of mourners gathered in South Africa’s eastern town of Ulundi on Saturday for the state funeral of veteran politician and Zulu princeButhelezi, a controversial figure during the apartheid liberation struggle because of his bitter rivalry with the African National Congress ,The founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party served two terms as minister of home affairs in the post-apartheid government after reconciling with his governing ANC rival, Nelson Mandela.
“Today is not a day to point fingers and cast blame,” Ramaphosa said, before Buthelezi’s coffin was brought out, draped in the national flag, for a 21-gun salute. “Let us look forward to the future with a … focus on what unites us.“ Buthelezi founded the IFP in 1975 and it became the dominant force in what is now KwaZulu-Natal. Like the ANC, Buthelezi was critical of white minority rule, which had relegated Zulus and other Black South African nations to downsized ’homelands’.
Former South African president Thabo Mbek and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa attend the official funeral of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.The two parties made peace when Buthelezi decided to participate in South Africa’s 1994 election, the first national poll since the end of white minority rule, which brought Mandela to power.
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