Mangosuthu Buthelezi Quotes

• Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans.

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• We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

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• The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.

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• The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

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• South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

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• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa – so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

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• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

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• My party is committed to a federation.

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• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

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• I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

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• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

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• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

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• I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president – as a speaker at the United Nations.

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• I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

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• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done – I don’t operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

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• For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

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Mangosuthu Buthelezi (24)

Birth:	27th August, 1928
Nationality:	African
Profession:	Politician

About

Mangosuthu Buthelezi is a South African politician who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1975 and the former prime minister of the KwaZulu bantustan. His praise name is Shenge.Mangosuthu studied at the University of Fort Hare from 1948 to 1950, where he joined the African National Congress Youth League and came into contact with Robert Mugabe and Robert Sobukwe. He was expelled from the university after student boycotts. He later completed his degree at the University of Natal.

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