Inkatha Versus the Rest: Black Opposition to Inkatha in Durban's African Townships

Sutcliffe, Michael; Wellings, Paul

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098051

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“…First was Inkatha's distance from the urban intelligentsia and working classes, who drove the resistance politics of the 1980s. In 1975 Inkatha did enjoy some support from urban constituencies (Schahmann 1978: 280;Sitas 1986: 93±4) but soon lost this through its reliance on KwaZulu elites and institutions, the lack of a substantive anti-apartheid programme and its participation in apartheid's Black Local Authorities for the townships (Sutcliffe and Wellings 1988). Secondly, by 1980 both Inkatha and the ANC were markedly intolerant of alternative expressions of black resistance.…”

Section: Inkatha/anc Rivalry And`hit and Myth' Politics 1980±9mentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationalism without a nation: the rise and fall of Zulu nationalism in South Africa’s transition to democracy, 1975–99

Piper

2002

Nations and Nationalism

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During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy the most virulent opposition to change came from Zulu nationalism. Post‐apartheid, however, Zulu nationalism has largely waned. This is because Zulu nationalism was instrumentally invoked and jettisoned by the Inkatha Freedom Party. Beginning in 1975, Inkatha embraced a ‘third way’ resistance politics between ‘acquiescence’ in apartheid and ‘impossible’ militant resistance. It was only later that Inkatha turned to Zuluness when it was out‐competed by the ANC and allies, first over the leadership of resistance politics and secondly during the transition. After 1994 the inclusion of the IFP in democratic government made old strategies redundant and thus it abandoned Zulu nationalism. Moreover, while a widespread sense of Zuluness exists, the meanings attached to it vary to the extent that the Zulu nation cannot exist. Thus the Zulu nationalism of the transition was an elite‐driven political nationalism prosecuted without a popularly imagined Zulu nation.

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Section: Inkatha/anc Rivalry And`hit and Myth' Politics 1980±9mentioning

confidence: 99%