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Relationship between the IFP and ANC; the 1972 meeting between Buthelezi (the newly elected leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority), OR Tambo, Mbeki and others; Gevisser profiling Buthelezi in 1997; in the early 1970s Buthelezi the most powerful black leader in SA, used the Bantustan system to denounce apartheid; OR Tambo advocated alliance with Buthelezi, he had old and deep bond with the Zulu chief; the ANC wanted Buthelezi to set up a political party to oppose King Zwelethini (Zulu king), Buthelezi agreed to form cover of a cultural organization, the IFP is set up as a crypto-ANC organisation; Buthelezi didn't support the armed struggle; Mbeki sold IFP and Buthelezi to ANC's Swedish funders till 1980 when the ANC publicly repudiated Buthelezi; ANC policy on homelands; Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement launched in June 1975; disagreement about Buthelezi on Robben Island and in the exile movement (Govan anti-collaborationist, Mandela not); ANC handed control of IFP over to Buthelezi a fatal mistake; the second meeting between the ANC and IFP in London, 30 + 31 October 1979, ANC wanted to pull him into line or break away from him, Buthelezi exposed their secret meeting, was imperative to ANC that relationship remain secret, 8 months later the ANC publicly repudiated Buthelezi.
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