TONY LEON | Prince Buthelezi’s death has triggered some hypocrisy, amnesia and contradiction

Depending on which part of the political spectrum you look from, Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s legacy will range from dignified statesman to warlord

19 September 2023 - 20:42

The funeral on Saturday of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Ulundi, in the heart of rural Zululand, showed that the decrepit and failing state can still muster its pomp and finery and 21 guns to lay to rest one of the most consequential figures in modern South African history...

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