Tsandzile Ndwandwe

{{Short description|Senior queen of Swaziland}}

Thandile 'Tsandzile' Ndwandwe, also known as LaZidze ("daughter of Zwide"), was an Ndlovukati or senior queen of Swaziland from July 1868 until June 1875.

{{Short description|Senior Queen of Eswatini from 1868 to 1875)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox royalty

|name = Tsandzile Ndwandwe

|image =

|succession =

|reign = Tsandzile Ndwandwe

|reign-type = Senior Queen

|predecessor = Somnjalose Simelane

|successor = Labotsibeni Mdluli

|succession1 =

|reign1 =

|reign-type1 =

|spouse = Sobhuza I

|issue = Mswati II

|full name =

|royal house = Ndwandwe

|father = Zwide kaLanga

|mother =

|birth_date =

|birth_place = Zulu Kingdom

|death_date =

|death_place = Swaziland

}}

She was the daughter of King Zwide kaLanga, the senior wife of King Sobhuza I, and the mother of King Mswati II.Phillip Bonner, Transvaal/Swazi Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, The Journal of African History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1978), pp. 219–238

References

{{reflist}}

{{s-start}}

{{s-reg}}

{{succession box | title=Queen Regent of Swaziland | before=King Mswati II of Swaziland | after=Crown Prince Ludvonga II | years=1868-1875}}

{{s-end}}

{{Swazi Monarchs}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ndwandwe, Tsandzile}}

Category:19th-century African people

Category:Female regents in Africa

Category:African queen mothers

Category:19th-century women rulers

{{Swaziland-bio-stub}}

{{Africa-royal-stub}}