1.   As the deadline looms, workers plan to strike Tuesday over unresolved labor issues and a crucial election in the violence-wracked Zulu kingdom may be postponed.

2.   Buthelezi called on the monarch to convene his own imbizo to plan for a semi-autonomus Zulu kingdom.

3.   Buthelezi wants autonomous powers for the Zulu kingdom to ward off ANC control, which he says would destroy Zulu culture.

4.   Buthelezi wants autonomy for regional governments and a special constitutional status for the Zulu kingdom.

5.   Buthelezi wants autonomy for regional governments and a special status for the Zulu kingdom.

6.   Buthelezi sanctioned participation only after Mandela and de Klerk, the former president, agreed to international mediation on demands for autonomy for the Zulu kingdom and provincial governments.

7.   In his speech, Buthelezi called on the monarch to convene his own imbizo to plan for a semi-autonomus Zulu kingdom.

8.   Inkatha objected to the elections because it wanted autonomous powers for the traditional Zulu kingdom instead of coming under ANC rule.

9.   Inkatha seeks international mediation to sort out its demands for more autonomy for KwaZulu-Natal and a special status for the Zulu kingdom.

10.   Inkatha and the ANC have been fierce rivals for control of the traditional Zulu kingdom in KwaZulu-Natal province.