Mangosuthu Buthelezi is the head of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Here is what you need to know about the Inkatha Freedom Party for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:
1) The Inkatha Freedom Party is based around Zulu identity politics.
2) Their poll results have plummeted from 11% (1994) to 4.5%(2009).
3) They are rivals with the African National Congress (ANC) which rules South Africa.
When I was reading the Shaka Zulu biography by E.A. Ritter I was startled to find that the Buthelezi clan was practically the first clan that Shaka absorbed into his Zulu polity. Right there... at the beginning... then the successor is the leader of the democratic political party that represents the entire ethnicity 200 years later in a multi-party Democracy. That's a strong civilization, when something like that happens.
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