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)}}
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|reign = Tsandzile Ndwandwe
|reign-type = Senior Queen
|predecessor = Somnjalose Simelane
|successor = Labotsibeni Mdluli
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|spouse = Sobhuza I
|issue = Mswati II
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|royal house = Ndwandwe
|father = Zwide kaLanga
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|birth_place = Zulu Kingdom
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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
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Category:19th-century African people
Category:Female regents in Africa
Category:African queen mothers
Category:19th-century women rulers
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