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Mangosuthu Buthelezi

1928 - 2023

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Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (; 27 August 1928 – 9 September 2023) was a South African politician and Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. He was appointed to this post by King Bhekuzulu, the son of King Solomon kaDinuzulu, a brother to Buthelezi's mother Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu. Buthelezi was chief minister of the KwaZulu bantustan during apartheid and founded the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in 1975, leading it until 2019, and became its president emeritus soon after that. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mangosuthu Buthelezi has received more than 1,354,752 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mangosuthu Buthelezi is the 12,493rd most popular politician (up from 14,657th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 126th in 2019) and the 25th most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mangosuthu Buthelezi ranks 12,493 out of 19,576. Before him are Gyula Kállai, Harihara I, Appius Claudius Pulcher, Fred Thompson, Nicaea of Macedon, and Alexander Protopopov. After him are Oda of Haldensleben, Cai Qi, Uchida Kōsai, Ernst Fast, Jenő Fuchs, and Elisabeth of Sicily, Duchess of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Mangosuthu Buthelezi ranks 311. Before him are Luis Posada Carriles, Cristina Calderón, Hiroshi Nakajima, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Mikio Sato, and Péter Boross. After him are Akira Miyawaki, Jacques Dupont, Peter Carsten, Péter Bacsó, Leonid Bronevoy, and Bella Davidovich. Among people deceased in 2023, Mangosuthu Buthelezi ranks 328. Before him are Francesco Alberoni, Mirko Novosel, Ernesto Castano, Friedel Lutz, Mikio Sato, and Lise Nørgaard. After him are Aman Tuleyev, Bill Richardson, Jacques Duquesne, Faustin Twagiramungu, Hsing Yun, and Osvaldo Héctor Cruz.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Mangosuthu Buthelezi ranks 75 out of 454. Before him are John Cranko (1927), Gordon Murray (1946), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Oliver Tambo (1917), Evelyn Mase (1922), and Alice Krige (1954). After him are Walter Sisulu (1912), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Laurens van der Post (1906), Nico Diederichs (1903), Koos de la Rey (1847), and Louis Raymond (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Mangosuthu Buthelezi ranks 25. Before him are Christiaan de Wet (1854), Piet Joubert (1834), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and Oliver Tambo (1917). After him are Walter Sisulu (1912), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Nico Diederichs (1903), Helen Suzman (1917), J. G. Strijdom (1893), and Eben Dönges (1898).

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