Zulu leader Gatsha Buthelezi, Chief Minister of the Kwazulu Legislative Assembly, explained the objects of Black nationalism in South Africa to a large gathering of Johannesburg Jews at Temple Emanuel Hall here last night. The meeting was arranged by Johannesburg’s United Progressive Jewish Congregation whose Chief Minister, Rabbi Dr. Arthur Super, introduced Buthelezi as the man who more than any other was the voice of the Black community in South Africa.
Buthelezi said that South Africa was unique in Africa in that white people as well as Black had become indigenous here. Each needed the other and should work together for welfare and progress. He said Black nationalism had taken much inspiration from Jewish history in Biblical times. He thought South Africa’s Black Homeland policy could succeed if it were honestly implemented. He personally favored a federation of Black and white states in South Africa as a solution which could avoid violent upheaval.
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