Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that South Africans are hoping Mondli Makhanya will write ‘history article’ about Gatsha Buthelezi following his death.
“It is hoped that the pain that still flows in many families and communities that fell victim to Buthelezi and the IFP’s many raids, assassinations and massacres will haunt those who want to sanitise history and salute the mass murderer.”- Mondli Makhanya , 2022.
News of the prominent Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) leader’s passing was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement released on Saturday morning.
“Prince Buthelezi, who served as the democratic South Africa’s first minister of home affairs, passed away in the early hours of today, Saturday, 9 September 2023, just two weeks after the celebration of his 95th birthday,” Ramaphosa wrote.
While the exact cause of death was not revealed in the family’s statement, Buthelezi died weeks after he was discharged from hospital, following months of treatment for a complication that arose from a medical procedure for back pain management.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi obituary
Born on August 27, 1928, at the Ceza Swedish Missionary Hospital in Mahlabathini, southeastern Natal, Buthelezi hailed from a distinguished Zulu lineage.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Zulu nationalist who positioned himself as Nelson Mandela’s most powerful Black rival in South Africa’s tortuous transformation from a white segregationist society to a multiracial democracy in the 1990s, died on Saturday. He was 95.
His death was announced in a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. It did not say where he died or give a cause. He said Mr. Buthelezi had been “an outstanding leader in the political and cultural life of our nation, including the ebbs and flows of our liberation struggle, the transition which secured our freedom in 1994 and our democratic dispensation.”
