Tutor Ndamase

{{Short description|South African politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Tutor Vulindlela Ndamase

|image =

|office = 3rd President of Transkei

|term_start = 20 February 1986

|term_end = 26 April 1994

|predecessor = Kaiser Matanzima

|successor = Position abolished

|primeminister = George Matanzima
Dumnisani Gladstone Gwadiso {{small|(Acting)}}
Stella Sigcau

|1blankname = Military Leader

|1namedata = Bantu Holomisa

|birth_name = Tutor Vulindlela Ndamase

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|1|11|df=yes}}

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|2|21|1921|1|11|df=yes}}

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|party = Independent {{small|(from 1987)}}

|otherparty = Transkei National Independence Party {{small|(until 1987)}}

}}

King Vulindlela Nyangelizwe KaPhangwa (Tutor Vulindlela Ndamase; 11 January 1921[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4PN4GnsrSgC&q=Tutor+Ndamase+11+January+1921&dq=Tutor+Ndamase+11+January+1921&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwilkfnLndSJAxXBRKQEHdgmCqAQ6AF6BAgNEAM#Tutor%20Ndamase%2011%20January%201921 Profile of Tutor Ndamase] – 21 February 1997)[https://www.rulers.org/1997-02.html February 1997] was the third President of the bantustan of Transkei, which was granted nominal independence from South Africa on 26 October 1976.{{efn|The Status of Transkei Act 100 of 1976 granted Transkei "independence" with effect from 26 October 1976.}}{{cite web | work=The New York Times | author=Henry Kamm | title=Transkei, a South African Black Area, Is Independent | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/26/archives/transkei-a-south-african-black-area-is-independent-transkei-becomes.html | date=October 26, 1976 | access-date=April 1, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/transkei|title=Transkei | South African History Online|website=www.sahistory.org.za}}

He was the King of Western Mpondoland, the son of King Victor Poto Ndamase]. He was father to Xhosa Queen Nondwe Sigcawu the wife of King [[Xolilizwe Sigcawu; AmaRharhabe Queen Nolizwe Sandile the wife of King Mxolisi Sandile and mother of King Maxhob'ayakhawuleza Sandile; and Chieftain Nolusapho Mabandla of the wife of AmaBhele Chief Thandathu Jongilizwe Mabandla.

Ndamase became president on 20 February 1986, after the retirement of King Kaiser Matanzima, the second President of Transkei (in office from 1979{{cite web | work=The New York Times | agency=Reuters | title=President Elected in Transkei | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/20/archives/president-elected-in-transkei.html | date=February 20, 1979 | access-date=October 5, 2022}}) and served until 26 April 1994, when Transkei was reintegarted into South Africa.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVrVK2ElINMC&q=%22Transkei+National+Independence+Party%22&pg=PA419|title=Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997|author1=Jacqueline Audrey Kalley|author2=Elna E. Schoeman|author3=Lydia Eve Andor|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Westport, Connecticut, USA|year=1999|isbn=9780313302473|pages=396, 419}}

Ndamase represented the Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) until 1987, when the party was abolished following the coup d'état led by Bantu Holomisa. He died on 21 February 1997 at the age of 76.