Hogarth would like to bid a fond farewell to one of his age mates, Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It would be a stretch on Hogarth's part to claim the late IFP leader as a friend, but he knows him to have been a regular reader and a consistent complainant against this column. The editor of the Sunday Times tells a story of how, in one interview, Buthelezi spent more than 30 minutes complaining about "two gentlemen" Hogarth and one Mondli Makhanya.
"I have never met a man with such an enormous capacity to forgive and I doubt I will ever meet another one. He was simply extra ordinary, he faced the immense pain of being unjustly vilified by the very leaders whose mandate he was acting, yet he refused to abandon the mandate." Velenkosini Hlabisa
Thousands of people, some dressed in traditional warrior clothes, on Saturday attended the funeral of South Africa's divisive Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who was implicated in a wave of deadly violence that marked the country's emergence from apartheid.
Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a powerful but divisive leader implicated in a wave of deadly violence that marked the birth of modern South Africa, will be laid to rest in a state funeral on Saturday.The Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Foundation dismissed criticism of its late patron as "unspeakably evil" and "old lies".