Britain's former foreign secretary; but because the two sides disagreed
about their terms of reference, most of the foreigners returned home
within forty-eight hours without achieving anything. However, Washing-
ton Okumu,
a Kenyan mem.ber of the group and an old friend of
Buthelezi, met Buthelezi at the Johannesburg
airport, where Okumu
pointed out thatif the IFP stayed out it would be isolated and defeated in a
bloodbath. Buthelezi then decided to compete in the election-a
decision
that was eased by an agreement he concluded with de Klerk and Mandela
(which was kept secret at the time) transferring three million acres of
KwaZulu land to the Zulu monarch, so that he would not fall under the fi-
nancial control of the new national government. Buthelezi registered his
party on April 19, a mere week before the election, and the electoral com-
mission made last-minute arrangements to include the IFP by adding an
IFP sticker at the bottom of the ballot sheets.s!
Meanwhile, the election campaign developed into a personal contest
between de Klerk and Mandela. De Klerk aimed to capture the white vote;
he explained that the Conservative party's vision of an Afrikaner Volk-
staat was unrealistic because Whites were a minority in every district in