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brinkmanship, supported by his nephew, King Goodwill Zwelethini, who
declared that all of the territory ruled by Shaka in his prime in the 1820S
should be reconstituted as an independent Zulu kingdom. Mandela and
de Klerk made a final effort to satisfy the IFP on April 8, when they met
Buthelezi and Zwelethini at Skukuza in South Africa's largest game re-
serve, the Kruger National Park. If the IFP would come into the election,
they would suspend the deadline for registration and Zwelethini would be
recognized as the constitutional
monarch of the new KwaZulu/Natal
province, with his own police and a secure stipend. Buthelezi rejected the
offer. The ANC and the National party then decided to proceed with the
election without the IFP and to subdue the IFP by force. On March 3I, de
Klerk declared a state of emergency in Natal and ordered troops to con-
centrate there. In a last desperate effort, Buthelezi persuaded Mandela and
de Klerk to allow a foreign group of seven members to mediate, headed by
Henry Kissinger, the former u.S. secretary of state, and Lord Carrington,
Britain's former foreign secretary; but because the two sides disagreed
about their terms of reference, most of the foreigners returned home