By Sihle Mavuso
Dr Makhosi Khoza, the former ANC MP and current Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) deputy president, insists that an independent Zulu state is constitutionally possible and economically viable.
Khoza says that to establish a separate Zulu state, the ABC would use the same constitutional provision used by a group of Afrikaners who formed the all-white enclave of Orania in the Northern Cape.
She was speaking in Durban last night during a panel discussion organised by the Xubera Institute to examine her party’s call for an independent Zulu state.
The party led by Philani “PG” Mavundla, the former deputy mayor of eThekwini municipality, says Zulus have been short-changed since the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, after the end of the Anglo-Boer War.
The panel discussion kicked off with Khoza presenting her policy paper. In it, she said the constitution allows Zulus to fulfil their wish for a separate self-governing state.
“Two thousand Afrikaners came together and invoked Chapter 14, Section 235 of the RSA constitution, giving them the right to self-determination. Orania is not part of South Africa but independent from South Africa.”
Khoza says a separate KwaZulu nation in South Africa is viable because the Zulu population is much bigger than Orania’s.
She lamented that the Zulu nation is so poor that the majority of people receiving social grants in South Africa are Zulus.
Mavundla justified his party’s call for an independent state of KwaZulu by saying that South Africa is currently a failed state, and that is not good for the Zulu nation.
Pictured above: Dr Makhosi Khoza says Zulus have the numbers to form a prosperous state independently.
Source: Sihle Mavuso
