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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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