Inkatha

The Inkatha Freedom Party was formed 1975 in South Africa by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of the Kwa-Zulu ‘homeland’, as a political party based mainly on Zulu aspirations. Buthelezi sought to attract a mass audience nationally by opposing apartheid and presenting the IFP as successor to the African National Congress, then a banned organization. With restrictions on the ANC lifted in 1990, Inkatha is increasingly concerned to protect its regional base, demanding a loose federal system with extensive local autonomy in any new, democratic political order. It has fared poorly in democratic elections.

— Ian Campbell