INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY Inventory of documents

Abstract

Private papers of the Inkatha Freedom Party. The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement founded on 21 March 1975 by Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi had some of its roots in the cultural organisation, "Inkatha", established by King Solomon in the 1920's. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in black politics caused by the banning of the ANC and PAC