Three IFP leaders resign

Date: 24 Jan 1997
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Three prominent Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leaders, Frank Mdlalose, national chairperson and premier of Kwazulu-Natal province, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General and Musi Myeni, leader in the Gauteng provincial legislature, resigned from the party. All three were accused of being moderates who favoured compromise. Their resignation during a fifteen-hour meeting of the IFP's national council followed reports of tensions with Inkatha President Chief Buthelezi.

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01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.

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