Inkatha becomes a political party

The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement, founded on 21 March 1975, was transformed into the multi-racial Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at a special conference in Ulundi. The party set the following aims to itself: To establish an open, free, non-racial, equal opportunity, reconciled society with democratic safeguards for all people. To harness the great resources of the country to fight the real enemies of the people, namely; poverty, hunger, unemployment, disease, ignorance, insecurity, homelessness and moral decay. To re-distribute the wealth of the country for the benefit of all people, and to establish political and economic structures that encourage enterprise and create the wealth all governments of the future will need. To ensure the maintenance if a stable, peaceful society in which all people can pursue their happiness, and realise their potential without fear or favour. Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi was unanimously elected president of the IFP.  Sources: http://www.ifp.org.za/History/history.htm