WORLD : Zulu Chief Agrees to Talk Peace
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Zulu movement Inkatha and chief minister of the Zulu homeland, conditionally agreed today to peace talks next month with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.
Buthelezi said he would accept the ANC’s invitation, announced Thursday night, for an Oct. 5 meeting, assuming, he said, that the ANC’s “intentions are genuine.”
In an invitation that circumvented opposition to a direct meeting between Mandela and the Inkatha leader, the ANC asked Buthelezi to attend a meeting of all the leaders of South Africa’s nominally independent black homelands.
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