<Table> <Tr> <Td> Republic of South Africa </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Republic of South Africa </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> KwaZulu was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the Zulu people . The capital was moved from Nongoma to Ulundi in 1980 . </P> <P> It was led until its abolition in 1994 by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Zulu tribe and head of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). It was merged with the surrounding South African province of Natal to form the new province of KwaZulu - Natal . </P>

Former name of the south african province prefixed with kwa zulu in 1994