A critique of Boston University President John Silber's praise for Chief Buthelezi. Sources about Buthelizi include a Ford Foundation report on South Africa, the Community Resource and Information Centre (CRIC), TransAfrica Forum, Glenn Frankel of the Washington Post, and Durban's Sunday Tribune. Buthelizi's cultural and political organization Inkatha has used coercive and violent means to unify Black South Africans for a non-violent approach to ending apartheid, the document says. In 1980, students in KwaZulu carried out a series of school boycotts. IN court cases brought against them by Inkatha, students described how they were abducted, beaten up, and handcuffed by prominent Inkatha officials...
A critique of Boston University President John Silber's praise for Chief Buthelezi. Sources about Buthelizi include a Ford Foundation report on South Africa, the Community Resource and Information Centre (CRIC), TransAfrica Forum, Glenn Frankel of the Washington Post, and Durban's Sunday Tribune. Buthelizi's cultural and political organization Inkatha has used coercive and violent means to unify Black South Africans for a non-violent approach to ending apartheid, the document says. In 1980, students in KwaZulu carried out a series of school boycotts. IN court cases brought against them by Inkatha, students described how they were abducted, beaten up, and handcuffed by prominent Inkatha officials and their impis. Some students were taken to Ulundi, where the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly sits, and they claim they were forced to sit behind Buthelezi, who then told his supporters to hand them to the police. Other affidavits alleged that supporters of the boycott had their houses and cars burnt or destroyed. The report mentions Oscar Dhlomo, the KwaZulu Minister of Education and Culture, Zulu "warriors," and the United Democratic Front (UDF).
