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Universities and the New Censorship

Mzala's Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief with a double agenda

Pages 98-115 | Published online: 29 Aug 2007

Footnotes

  • In 1989, the book appeared in a French edition, published by L'Harmattan Paris
  • False biographical details about Mzala and his identity were circulated in London, circa 1987, in a pamphlet claiming to be the work of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group
  • Daniel , John . March 1991 . “ Lost ‘prince’ of the ANC ” . In The Guardian March , 14, Biographical details in this paragraph from this source
  • Daniel , John . Personal communication
  • Daniel , John . Personal communication see also Natal Witness, New Nation and Weekly Mail all 10 June 1991
  • Daniel , John . Personal communication
  • Daniel . Lost ‘prince’ of the ANC
  • Johnson , Shaun . October 1988 . Attempting to pin down the man of ambiguity October , Weekly Mail, 7–13, Nomavenda Mathiane, “Buthelezi biographies: the hatchet and the snow”, Frontline 8, 6 (1989): 37–38.
  • Daniel , John . 1987 . Personal communication , Johannesburg : Raven Press . Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • See the book review Ravans at work on Inkatha! 1987 written by Inkatha official and KwaZulu Government Minister Oscar Dhlomo under the pseudonym “Dingiswayo”, in Ilanga, 17–19 December, Buthelezi's Policy speech, March 1988 (Ulundi: KwaZulu Legislative Assembly, 1988), 202–204, in which he identifies Dhlomo as the writer of the Ilanga review; and comments about Gerhard Maré in “Report on the politicisation of the University of Natal and its implications for Inkatha and the KwaZulu government, April 1989: a confidential document prepared for the Inkatha Institute for South Africa, Durban, April 1989”.
  • Buthelezi . 1991 . Policy speech…March 1991 , 191 – 191 . Ulundi : KwaZulu Legislative Assembly . 230
  • Letters page Frontline 8 1989 8 5 6
  • Personal communication
  • June 1991 . Natal Witness June , 17
  • May 1991 . Weekly Mail May , 10–16, see also New Nation, 10 May 1991.
  • May 1991 . New Nation May , 10, and Weekly Mail, 10–16 May 1991.
  • May 1991 . Sunday Times May , 12
  • This letter was used as the basis for others sent to the editors of the Daily News and Natal Witness 1991 objecting to press coverage in their newspapers. The Daily News published the letter on 13 June
  • These words were uttered by Iago, described in one standard reference work as the incarnation of evil with no redeeming feature, comparable for his contempt for humans with Hitler Rowse A.L. Shakespeare's characters: a complete guide Methuen London 1984 80 81
  • 1989 . Frontline 8 Vol. 8 , 5 – 6 .
  • May 1991 . Letter signed on behalf of the Chief Director , May , Committee of University . Principals on 22
  • 1991 . June 8
  • June 1991 . Saturday News June , 8
  • June 1991 . Saturday News June , 8, Natal Witness, 8 June 1991.
  • June 1991 . Natal Witness June , 10
  • June 1991 . Daily News June , 13, the Natal Witness did not publish the letter.
  • June 1991 . Ilanga June , 13
  • 1989 . Report on the politicisation of the University of Natal…
  • Booysen , P. de V. June 1991 . Vice-Chancellor and Principal June , 25
  • June 1991 . Daily News June , 25
  • June–4 July 1991 . Weekly Mail June–4 July , 28
  • July 1991 . Weekly Mail July , 5–11, and 12–19 July 1991
  • July 1991 . Natal Mercury July , 15
  • July 1991 . Natal Witness July , 17, Weekly Mail, 19–25 July 1991.
  • Personal communication
  • The LIWO resolution is quoted in full in the Anti-Censorship Action Group's ACAG update 1991 July 3 3
  • Reviews in academic journals include Roger Southall in African affairs 1988 87 635 636 Shula Marks, “Review article: Inkatha and contemporary politics” in Journal of Natal and Zulu history 11 (1988): 175–187; Norman Etherington, “Buthelezi and the South African revolution” in Southern African review of books, Spring 1988, 3–5; J. Brewer in Africa 59 (1989): 254–255; Mokubung Nkomo in Canadian journal of African studies 24 (1990): 129–132; Nicholas Cope in Journal of Southern African studies 16 (1990): 585–587. The book was also reviewed in A current bibliography on African affairs 21 (1989): 147; by K. Grundy in Choice: reviews for college libraries (February 1989): 1001; by Thando Zuma in African communist 115 (1988): 85–92; by Suzanne Cronje in New Statesman 115 (1988): 24; by Shaun Johnson in the Weekly Mail, 7–13 October 1988, 15; and by Moira Levy in New Nation, 5–11 April 1990, 23. A less serious review, “Buthelezi biographies: the hatchet and the snow” by Nomavenda Mathiane, appeared in Frontline 8, 6 (1989): 37–38.
  • de Kock , Wessel . 1986 . Usuthu! cry peace: the black liberation movement Inkatha and the fight for a just South Africa , Cape Town : The Open Hand Press . Ben Temkin, Gatsha Buthelezi: Zulu statesman (Cape Town: Purnell, 1976); Jack Shepherd-Smith, Buthelezi: the biography (Mellville: Hans Strydom Publishers, 1988).
  • Suzanne Cronje indicates in the New Statesman that “he has access to the ANC archives in Lusaka and provides new material on the role of the bantustans in South African politics”; see also Marks, 178.
  • Review in A current bibliography on African affairs 147 147
  • Brewer . 254 – 254 .
  • Cope . 587 – 587 .
  • Johnson . 15 – 15 .
  • Johnson . 15 – 15 .
  • Mathiane . 38 – 38 .
  • Southall 636 – 636 . Etherington, 3–4; Cope, 586–587; and Marks, 186–7.
  • Johnson . 15 – 15 .
  • All Southall 636 – 636 .
  • Grundy . 1001 – 1001 .
  • See also comment in University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) Library Library Bulletin 1991 June 233 233 1
  • June 1991 . Daily News June , 25
  • This concerned Lothar Neethling, head of the forensic section of the South African Police, who sued the Weekly Mail and Vryeweekblad over articles published on his links with death squads.
  • See Weekly Mail 1991 July 19–25, (and subsequent issues); Natal Mercury, 9 August 1991.
  • July 1991 . Weekly Mail July , 19–25, (and subsequent issues); Natal Mercury, 9 August 1991
  • See footnote 20 Weekly Mail 1991 May 10–16
  • 1990 . A bill of rights for a new South Africa: a working document by the ANC Constitutional Committee , 9 – 9 . Bellville : University of the Western Cape, Centre for Development Studies .
  • The right of reply, retraction and apology all have a basic weakness in that the complainant cannot be sure that all those who saw or heard the original allegation will be aware of the follow up Burchell J.M. The law of defamation in South Africa Juta Cape Town 1985 311 319

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