[2] In 1994, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi named Zulu as one of several "latter-day busy-bodies" who were attempting to "vilify" him.
[5] Zulu joined the upper house of the South African Parliament in 1999, representing the ANC in the National Council of Provinces.
[7] He chaired a local ANC branch in Zululand[9] and was also a member of the South African Communist Party.
In 1994, the Mail & Guardian reported that his home in Nongoma had been attacked,[10] and in January 2001, two huts at his homestead were burned down.
[10] On 1 February 2009, during the ANC's campaign ahead of that year's general election, Zulu was shot while leaving a party rally in Nongoma.