Mandela and Rival Buthelezi to Meet
Nelson Mandela, deputy president of the African National Congress, will meet his main rival, Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, president of the Inkatha Freedom Party, today in a renewed attempt to end South Africa’s townships war.
The country’s two most powerful black politicians will meet at a luxury hotel in the Indian Ocean port of Durban to discuss “the current tragic violence,” Inkatha spokeswoman Suzanne Vos said Friday.
It will be only their second meeting since ANC-Inkatha fighting spread from Natal province to Johannesburg last August.
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