Thatcher didn't care that Buthelezi inflicted mass bloodshed on South Africa, but we mustn't forget | Chris McGreal

Ahead of the warlord's funeral today, there have been nauseating attempts to kindly reassess him. Don't fall for it As a warlord, Mangosuthu Buthelezi was naturally quick to take offence. The Zulu prince and former chief minister of the apartheid-era KwaZulu black homeland, who has died at the age of 95 and will be buried today, became so upset at my line of questioning about the bloody handiwork of his Inkatha Freedom party in the run-up to South Africa's first free election in 1994 that he tur...