
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 24, 1994                   TAG: 9403240160
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ULUNDI, SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Short

ZULU LEADER WILL ALLOW VOTING

Zulu nationalist Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a lone holdout against elections for South Africa's first post-apartheid government, yielded to pressure Wednesday to allow voting in his homeland.

But in a meeting with the judge charged with overseeing the April 26-28 elections, Buthelezi said his Inkatha Freedom Party, the main black rival to Nelson Mandela's African National Congress, still refused to take part in the election.

Buthelezi, leader of the KwaZulu black homeland, said he had no choice but to recognize the authority of the Transitional Executive Council, which is dominated by the government and the ANC. He said he would allow government buildings in KwaZulu to be used as polling places "on a selective basis," and that his civil servants could help run the election.

A day earlier, the transitional council ousted a homeland leader opposed to the ANC, in the second such action this month. That left Buthelezi as the last homeland leader opposed to the vote.

- Associated Press

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