Tsandzile Ndwandwe, also known as LaZidze (daughter of Zidze), was an ''Ndlovukati'' or senior queen of Swaziland from July 1868 until June 1875.
She was the daughter of
Zwide kaLanga
Zwide kaLanga (1758–1825) was the king of the Ndwandwe (Nxumalo) nation from about 1805 to around 1820. He was the son of Langa KaXaba, a Nxumalo king. Legend has it that Zwide's mother, Queen Ntombazi, was a sangoma. And she infamously collect ...
, the senior wife of
Sobhuza I of Swaziland, and the mother of
Mswati II of Swaziland.
[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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19th-century African people
Women rulers in Africa
African queens
19th-century women rulers
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