Mswati III (born Makhosetive; 19 April 1968) is Ngwenyama (King) of Eswatini and head of the Swazi royal family. He heads Africa’s last absolute monarchy...

King Mswati III International Airport (IATA: SHO, ICAO: FDSK), initially named Sikhuphe International Airport in the planning and construction phase, is...

LaMbikiza, is the third and senior wife of King Mswati III of Eswatini. Sibonelo married Mswati III in 1986, becoming the first wife he personally chose...

King Mswati II (c. 1820 – August 1868), also known as Mswati and Mavuso III, was the king of Eswatini between 1840 and 1868. He was also the eponym of...

Miss Cultural Heritage 2016–2017. Dlamini was selected as the wife of Mswati III, becoming a member of the Swazi royal family. She is the king's fourteenth...

leaders of Swaziland with the name Mswati. Chief Mswati I, c. 1480 – c. 1520 King Mswati II, 1840–1868 King Mswati III, since 1986 List of monarchs of Eswatini...

Zena Soraya Mahlangu (born 1984) is a Swazi royal and the tenth wife of Mswati III. In 2002, when she was eighteen years old, she was abducted by two of...

of King Mswati III of Eswatini. Nothando Dube was a former Miss Teen Swaziland. Dube attended Mater Dorolosa High School. She met Mswati III, the king...

Inkhosikati (queen consort) and wife of Mswati III of Eswatini. Masango was selected to be a new bride for Mswati III during the 1999 Uhmlanga ceremony. They...

is a Swazi princess and politician. She is the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Eswatini, and is the country's former Minister of Information and Communication...

mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III. The country and the Swazi take their names from Mswati II, the 19th-century king under whose rule the...

also regent of Eswatini from 1983 to 1986. She is the mother of King Mswati III. Ntfombi married King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, with whom she had a son...

The House of Dlamini is the royal house of the Kingdom of Eswatini. Mswati III, as king and Ngwenyama of Eswatini, is the current head of the house of...

Disaster Management Agency. Following the 2023 general election, King Mswati III decided to appoint Dlamini as Prime Minister. Lenin Ndebele (3 November...

Sobhuza continued to reign until his death in 1982. He was succeeded by Mswati III, his young son with Inkhosikati Ntfombi Tfwala, who was crowned in 1986...

iNgwenyama's mother or another female royal of high status. The current king is Mswati III, who has reigned since 1986. The annual budget allocated to the King and...

Ngwane IV): 1815–1839 Lojiba Simelane (Queen Regent): 1836–1840 Mswati II (Mavuso III): 1840–1865 Tsandzile Ndwandwe (Queen Regent): August 1865 – June...

minister is Russell Dlamini, since 4 November 2023. He was appointed by King Mswati III at the Ludzidzini Royal Village. Political parties   Imbokodvo National...

Tfwala, the mother of Ngwenyama Mswati III and wife of Sobhuza II. She was also queen regent from 1983 until 1986 when Mswati became king. The most notable...

traditional aristocrat. She is the sister-in-law of the King of eSwatini, Mswati III, and the daughter of Nelson Mandela and his former wife, Winnie Mandela...

100-, and 200-emalangeni notes to commemorate the 40th birthday of King Mswati III and the 40th anniversary of independence. On November 1, 2010, the Central...

years, the longest verified reign of any monarch. The present ruler, King Mswati III, ascended to the throne in 1986. A new constitution established in 1998...

conscience by Amnesty International. He launched a court challenge to King Mswati III of Eswatini in 2018 and was assassinated in 2023. He was a member of the...

Makhosetive was crowned on 25 April 1986 with the name of King Mswati III of Eswatini. In May, Mswati dissolved the Liqoqo, consolidating his power and reorganising...

Dlamini, the royal family of Eswatini, currently led by Ngwenyama (King) Mswati III (born 1968) and Ndlovukati (Queen Mother) Ntfombi (born c. 1950). The...

Olubuse II, the Ooni of Ife, with $225 million and the Swaziland King Mswati III by over $200 million to become Africa's second richest king in 2014 behind...

Ludzidzini Royal Village, the residence of Queen Ntfombi, the Queen Mother. Mswati III lives about ten kilometres (6 mi) away at the Lozitha Palace. The King...

previous officeholder, Michael Ramodibedi, had been dismissed by King Mswati III for serious misbehaviour in June 2015. Ndzimandze, Mbongiseni (13 November...

countries (and the only in Africa) that is an absolute monarchy, with Mswati III having been the King since 1986. Political parties have been banned since...

of Ife, worth at least $75 million and the Ngwenyama of Eswatini, King Mswati III, who was himself worth at least $50 million. Rounding out the top five...