Chief Buthelezi is a good man, and it’s a shame that the world favored Mandela over him.
It’s still very good however it came about. (most of his people identify as Christian so this may be a part of why they are friendly with the West and Israel). And his tribe is near the Lemba tribe ( which asserts its descent from Israel , a claim for which Dan genetic tests provide support including some priestly cohanim heritage). It’s all very interesting and I regret not knowing more about them all
The king was a founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party. He used to be ANC way back at the beginning when the issue was Apartheid and both Zulus and the leftist ANC agreed it had to go, but IFP split ways with ANC over the issue of using violence to end Apartheid. IFP opposed violence, wanted slow change and to retain independence. ANC was willing to use violence, and wanted power, unwilling to leave Zulus to themselves. They split ways and pretty much got in a civil war over it and as you can imagine, with ANC favoring heinous things like necklacing those it saw as collaborators or traitors to their cause [of power, not apartheid], and was more than willing to apply the horrific torture and method of execution to blacks.
ANC accused the king of collaboration because he did not favor violence or loss of tribal identity and independence, so IFP did accept training to in order to fight ANC. That set the stage for leftists everywhere to hate and smear the Zulu leaders.