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Inkatha Freedom Party activists demand that South Africa withdraw a history book

IFP NATIONAL Organiser Albert Mncwango said the party was prepared to go to court if Education Minister Naledi Pandor and her KwaZulu-Natal counterpart did not withdraw a grade 12 book, titled In Search of History.
He was speaking at a march at Port Shepstone .
About 2000 party supporters took to the streets to call for the immediate withdrawal of the book.
Mncwango said it was untrue that the IFP and its leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi were perpetrating violence in the province as depicted in the book.
The book has a cartoon showing Buthelezi signing a document with a pen dripping with blood.
Mncwango said the cartoon implied the IFP was involved in violence.
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