SOUTH AFRICA: INKATHA CHIEF STEPS UP CRITICISM OF ANC

(4 Jun 1995) English/Nat
South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi stepped up criticism of the rival African National Congress, Sunday while one of his followers threatened to kill " more than one thousand people a day".
The threat follows President Nelson Mandela's admission that he instructed ANC guards to use deadly force during an Inkatha demonstration last year in which 55 people were killed.
The revelation has fueled tensions between the two rival political parties -.tensions that have claimed 20-thousand lives in the past decade.
The smoke columns from burning huts have become an all too familiar sight in South Africa's eastern province of Kwazulu-Natal. Supporters of both the Inkatha and the ANC regularly attack each others homesteads.
Here it is Zulu against Zulu, brother against brother. It is a seemingly unbreakable cycle of violence
SOUNDBITE:
They were looking for us but we ran away. Instead of killing us they burned the huts.
SUPER CAPTION: ANC supporter
On Sunday, Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi came to address his supporters near the town of Mandini, an area that has seen much violence.
Bands of heavily armed Inkatha supporters greeted him with war-songs.
Chief Buthelezi knows that he walks a fine line. He is part of the national government of unity led by the ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
At the same time he demands autonomy for his province which would give him a permanent power base.
Several times he has pulled out of negotiations over the future of the province, earning the wrath of President Nelson Mandela.
SOUNDBITE:
Unfortunately, when President Mandela was in Tanzania on foreign soil, he made what I consider to be a tragic statement. President Mandela indicated that I Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the I-F-P, am the problem for the consolidation of democracy in South Africa.
SUPER CAPTION: Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader of the I-F-P
He said that he would not back down on his demand for international mediation over the issue of autonomy for his home province.
SOUNDBITE:
However it shall be known to everybody that being a member of the Government of National Unity can not and shall not muzzle me. After all we belong to different political persuasions and voicing these different political persuasions and voicing these different political persuasions in not being disloyal to President Mandela as head of the government.
SUPER CAPTION: Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader of the I-F-P
And his armed supporters, also known as Impis, continue to march through the hills of Natal, striking terror into everybody who stands in their way.
In South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg, one of the leaders of the I-F-P's paramilitary Self Protection Units (SPU) raised the stakes by threatening bloodshed if President Nelson Mandela was not arrested over last week's startling admission.
SOUNDBITE:
One SPU at least to kill a thousand a day. Yes.
SUPER CAPTION:Richard Mtuseni, I-F-P leader of Self Protection Unit
The threat was prompted by Mandela's statement to the Senate
on Thursday that he ordered ANC guards to use deadly force if necessary to protect the ANC headquarters during an Inkatha demonstration on March 28 last year.
At least 55 people were killed in the Johannesburg area that day.
Strong words from the Inkatha activists that will not help to bring peace to the troubled provinces and townships of South Africa.
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The video opens on burning houses at ENsimbini area Near Port Shepstone in KZN .Worst things happened in that Area... ...

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