ABSTRACT
Early in this book, I said that there were four main threads to Buthelezi’s life – family, faith, politics and tradition. Very little has been said, so far, about his family. To some extent this respects their privacy. It also emphasises the considerable influence he has had on them as a father. It is difficult to grow up in the shadow of a parent who is not a only a constant focus of media attention but who, in his case, was for many years the whipping-boy of that same media. It says much for the character of all his children that they have matured into independent-minded and balanced adults, all of whom are fiercely loyal to their parents, Christian in outlook and faithful to their Zulu tradition. What makes him most proud is that they all support, though not always without questions and doubts, the movement that he built into one of the most powerful political parties in South Africa.
