siding over an apartheid institution, the Zulu Homeland.r" Thereafter;
Buthelezi identified himself as a Zulu nationalist, in contrast to the broad-
South African nationalism of the ANC. After the unbanning of the ANC, the
struggle that had begun in KwaZulu and Natal in the 1980s intensified
dramatically. Buthelezi resented being excluded from the ANC'S meetings
with the government and feared that Zulu interests would be ignored.
Like other Homeland leaders, he hoped to retain power by making
KwaZulu a sovereign state or, at least, a member of a loosely federal South
Africa.29
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