1928- . Zulu leader and politician, chief
minister of KwaZulu, a black `homeland' in
the Republic of South Africa from 1970. He is
founder and president of Inkatha 1975, a
paramilitary organization for attaining a
nonracial democratic political system.
Great-grandson of King Cetewayo, Buthelezi is
strongly opposed to KwaZulu becoming a Black
National State, but envisages a confederation
of the black areas, with eventual majority
rule over all South Africa under a one-party
socialist system.