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Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu 27 July — 12 March [ 2 ] was the King of the Zulu nation from to his death in He became King on the death of his father, King Cyprian Bhekuzulu , in aged 20 years. Prince Israel Mcwayizeni acted as the regent from to while the King took refuge in the then Transkei province of South Africa for three years to avoid assassination.

Zwelithini died on 12 March , aged 72, after reportedly being admitted to hospital for diabetes-related illness. In the power vacuum created in the s as Apartheid and the domination of the country by White South Africans was abolished, the King was increasingly drawn to partisan politics. In particular, the IFP campaigned aggressively for an autonomous and sovereign Zulu king, as constitutional head of state.

As a result, the IFP abstained from registering its party for the election until the king's role in the new democracy is clarified. Mandela and president De Klerk arranged a special meeting where it was agreed that international mediators would be called to try and sort out the issue of a king. As a result, the IFP was registered for the elections.

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It demonstrated its political strength by taking the majority of the provincial votes for KwaZulu-Natal in the said election. Although the constitution makes the role of the King largely ceremonial, it is incumbent upon him to act on the official advice of the provincial premier. But, in September , tension between the previously allied kinsmen peaked publicly as the annual Shaka Zulu celebration approached.

Rumours that the King was manoeuvring to replace Buthelezi as Zulu prime minister with former regent Prince Mcwayizeni, who had joined the ANC in , seemed likely after the King announced that Buthelezi would no longer be his chief advisor, and simultaneously cancelled the holiday ceremony. Buthelezi moved the event from Nongoma to Stanger , and addressed a throng of 10, of his Zulu supporters.

Subsequently, the King's spokesman, Prince Sifiso Zulu, was being interviewed on television at the South African Broadcasting Corporation's studio when Buthelezi and his bodyguards forcibly interrupted the programme, physically intimidating Prince Sifiso. The televised incident drew national attention and a public rebuke from Mandela, prompting Buthelezi to apologise to the Zulu Royal Family, Cabinet and nation for his behaviour.