Inkatha: The Party of the New South African
By Jay Rogers
Reported by Dawson Lewis in South Africa
BRAAMFONTEIN, South Africa (FR) - Largely ignored by the news media of the western world, there are many organizations in the black community of South Africa, in addition to the African National Congress, currently seeking to abolish the apartheid system.
Apartheid, the system of racial separation granting whites a monopoly of political and economic power, has incurred the hostility of a majority of the nations of the world. Naturally, apartheid has also incurred the greatest hostility among the disenfranchised blacks of South Africa.
Complicating this injustice are the twin social structures of nationalism and tribalism, which are a fact of life in South Africa. National and tribal wars among blacks occur frequently in South Africa and are difficult to stop. The largest tribe in South Africa is the Zulu nation, which has more than 6 million members. The next in size is the Xhosa, which has almost as many.
Seizing the opportunity to rally the blacks of South Africa, a number of organizations have sprung up with the intention of abolishing apartheid. The best known of these is the African National Congress (ANC), and its leader Nelson Mandela, who have been selected by the news media of the western world as the organization of the blacks which is destined to be the government of South Africa after the abolition of apartheid.
The ANC entered into partnership with the South African Communist Party (SACP), and willingly acknowledges that the Communists have prominent and influential roles in its leadership. The SACP and the ANC formed a joint military organization known as Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) to wage war against the South African government.
Few dispute the right of the ANC to be one of the representatives in the proposed negotiations with the South African government, but it is undemocratic for the ANC to be the sole representative. Furthermore, the majority of the black leaders of the ANC belong to the Xhosa tribe, which would create even more tension among the tribes of South Africa if this party were to provide the sole leadership for South Africa.
It is interesting to note that in a recent poll of South Africans, only 44 percent of the blacks said they would vote for Nelson Mandela as their president. Although this percentage constitutes a plurality of votes, Mandela's popularity is not as overwhelming as portrayed by the western media.
Another party in South Africa, heavily Marxist and even more politically leftist than the ANC is the Pan African Congress (PAC). Although claiming to be more pluralistic than the ANC, the PAC is also even more committed to the violent overthrow of the white South African government.
The PAC's official slogan: 'One settler - one bullet,' speaks of the violent retribution that this group favors to uphold their political power.
Inkatha
An alternative party rarely mentioned by the western press is Inkatha, a party made up mostly of Zulus, which claims over a million dues-paying members, which would make it the largest political party in South Africa. Although this claim is probably inflated, Inkatha represents pro-western, pro-democratic, pro-free enterprise ideals which would create a more pluralistic society.
Inkatha's leader Chief Mango Suthu Buthelezi, a member of the Zulu tribe, claims to be a Christian, and recently opened up Inkatha's membership to all races in a landmark resolution. The resolution which carried this transformation was reported in the Inkatha magazine Clarion Call:
"We the members of Inkatha have always striven to establish a race-free South Africa in which there will be an open, multi-party democracy ... We now see the fruits of Black political labour and know that to make them the fruits of the whole of South Africa, we will have to make the final eradication of apartheid and the establishment of a true non-racial, multi-ethnic party democracy the responsibility of all South Africans in an all-race effort."
Inkatha does not seek a monopoly of political power. It does not claim to compete with the ANC for future political power. Its stated objective is to be included with the ANC in negotiations with President de Klerk and representatives of the South African government for future political representation.
However, major groups in the western world continue to pin their hopes on the Marxist ANC, while the evidence is overwhelming that Communism and Tribalism produce poverty, suffering and mountains of corpses. Must South Africa continue to learn this from bitter experience?
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