While both parties said they have now found one another, they spent a long period deliberating over the Zulu regiments who carry traditional weapons and their expected role this coming weekend.
Buthelezi’s successor Velenkosini Hlabisa said the leadership of the IFP wants to fulfil Buthelezi s long-term vision of seeing the two political parties reaching a consensus on the violence that spilled over South Africa’s townships in the lead-up to its democratic breakthrough.