Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement, later the Inkatha Freedom Party, is formed
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Date: 21 March, 1975
The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement was founded on 21 March 1975 at KwaNzimela, in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in black politics caused by the banning of the ANC and PAC.
Most of the founders of Inkatha had been ANC office-bearers or activists. The most prominent founder was Dr. M.G. Buthelezi, a former a member of the ANC Youth League who became the President of the Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement. Other prominent founding members of Inkatha were the late Rt. Rev. Bishop Dr. A.H. Zulu and Dr. Frank .T. Mdlalose.
On 14 July 1990, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came into being at a special conference in Ulundi, where Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi was unanimously elected President of the IFP.
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Source:
- Inkatha Freedom Party [online]. Available at: sahistory.org.za [accessed 12 March 2009]
- Inkatha Freedom Party, historical background [online]. Available at: ifp.org.za/ [accessed 11 March 2009]