Inkatha sources said a provincial election could be held as early as November. National and provincial elections in South Africa are not due until 1999, but party sources said the transitional constitution provided for an early election if there was a vote of no confidence in a provincial government.
Buthelezi said he expected his party to win more than two thirds of the vote and with it the power to adopt its own constitution providing for maximum provincial autonomy -- the issue at the center of his dispute with Mandela.
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